<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible-playbook</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="./docbook-xsl.css"type="text/css"/><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"/></head><body><divxml:lang="en"class="refentry"title="ansible-playbook"lang="en"><aid="id451099"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><divclass="refsynopsisdiv"title="Synopsis"><aid="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook <filename.yml> … [options]</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><spanclass="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment
system. Ansible-playbook is the tool used to run them. See the
project home page (link below) for more information.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="ARGUMENTS"><aid="_arguments"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2><divclass="variablelist"><dl><dt><spanclass="term">
The <spanclass="emphasis"><em>PATH</em></span> to the inventory hosts file, which defaults to <spanclass="emphasis"><em>/etc/ansible/hosts</em></span>.
</dd></dl></div></div><divclass="refsect1"title="ENVIRONMENT"><aid="_environment"></a><h2>ENVIRONMENT</h2><p>The following environment variables may specified.</p><p>ANSIBLE_HOSTS —Override the default ansible hosts file</p><p>ANSIBLE_LIBRARY—Override the default ansible module library path</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="AUTHOR"><aid="_author"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan. See the AUTHORS file
is available on the ansible home page: <aclass="ulink"href="https://ansible.github.com/"target="_top">https://ansible.github.com/</a></p></div></div></body></html>
