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<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible-modules</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-modules"lang="en"><aid="id467962"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-modules — stock modules shipped with ansible</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>Ansible ships with a number of modules that can be executed directly on remote hosts or through
ansible playbooks.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="IDEMPOTENCE"><aid="_idempotence"></a><h2>IDEMPOTENCE</h2><p>Most modules other than command are idempotent, meaning they will seek to avoid changes
unless a change needs to be made. When using ansible playbooks, these modules can
trigger change events, as described in <spanclass="strong"><strong>ansible-playbooks</strong></span>(5).</p><p>Unless otherwise noted, all modules support change hooks.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="command"><aid="_command"></a><h2>command</h2><p>The command module takes the command name followed by a list of arguments, space delimited.
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<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible-modules</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-modules"lang="en"><aid="id319107"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — format and function of an ansible playbook file</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>Ansible ships with <spanclass="emphasis"><em>ansible-playbook</em></span>, a tool for running playbooks.
<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible-modules</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-modules"lang="en"><aid="id441065"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — format and function of an ansible playbook file</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>Ansible ships with <spanclass="emphasis"><em>ansible-playbook</em></span>, a tool for running playbooks.
Playbooks can represent frequent tasks, desired system configurations,
or deployment processes.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="FORMAT"><aid="_format"></a><h2>FORMAT</h2><p>Playbooks are written in YAML.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="EXAMPLE"><aid="_example"></a><h2>EXAMPLE</h2><p>See:</p><divclass="itemizedlist"><ulclass="itemizedlist"type="disc"><liclass="listitem">
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<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible</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"lang="en"><aid="id408842"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><divclass="refsynopsisdiv"title="Synopsis"><aid="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible <host-pattern> [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><spanclass="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible</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"lang="en"><aid="id334636"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><divclass="refsynopsisdiv"title="Synopsis"><aid="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible <host-pattern> [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><spanclass="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
Hostname pattern. Accepts shell-like globs which can be seperated with ";"
The default is "*" which matches all hosts in the ansible hosts file. Group
names from the ansible inventory file can also be used.
</dd></dl></div><p>See ansible --help for additional options.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="INVENTORY"><aid="_inventory"></a><h2>INVENTORY</h2><p>Ansible stores the hosts it can potentially operate on in an inventory
Where to load modules from. The default is /usr/share/ansible
</dd></dl></div></div><divclass="refsect1"title="INVENTORY"><aid="_inventory"></a><h2>INVENTORY</h2><p>Ansible stores the hosts it can potentially operate on in an inventory
file. The syntax is one host per line. Groups headers are allowed and
are included on their own line, enclosed in square brackets.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="FILES"><aid="_files"></a><h2>FILES</h2><p>/etc/ansible/hosts—Default hosts file</p><p>/usr/share/ansible—Default module library</p></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
are included on their own line, enclosed in square brackets.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="FILES"><aid="_files"></a><h2>FILES</h2><p>/etc/ansible/hosts—Default inventory file</p><p>/usr/share/ansible/—Default module library</p></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>
Michael DeHaan
13 years ago