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Stop and disable services on boot on Linux remote hosts — Ansible module service_facts, service

How to list the available Linux services and automate the stop and disable service on boot process with Ansible playbook. Included code and demo with “chronyd.service” NTP server on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.

Luca Berton
6 min readDec 1, 2021

How to stop and disable services on boot on Linux remote hosts with Ansible?
I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible enable services on boot on remote hosts

  • ansible.builtin.service_facts
  • Return service state information as fact data
  • ansible.builtin.service
  • Manage services

Today we’re talking about Ansible modules service_facts and service.
First, you need to acquire the information of the services on the target machine.
This task is performed by the Ansible module service_facts. You can’t enable a service that…

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Luca Berton
Luca Berton

Written by Luca Berton

I help creative Automation DevOps, Cloud Engineer, System Administrator, and IT Professional to succeed with Ansible Technology to automate more things everyday

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