@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ will remain short & simple, and the source will be blindingly obvious.</p>
<p>We’ve learned well from “Infrastructure is Code”. Infrastructure should be easy and powerful to command, but it should not look like code, lest it acquire the disadvantages of a software project – bugs, complexity, and overhead. Infrastructure configurations should be simple, easy to develop, and easy to audit.</p>
<p>We’ve learned well from “Infrastructure is Code”. Infrastructure should be easy and powerful to command, but it should not look like code, lest it acquire the disadvantages of a software project – bugs, complexity, and overhead. Infrastructure configurations should be simple, easy to develop, and easy to audit.</p>
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system. Ansible-playbook is the tool used to run them. See the
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">
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">
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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="id351566"></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
<h2>ohai<aclass="headerlink"href="#ohai"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>Similar to the <aclass="reference internal"href="#facter"><em>facter</em></a> module, this returns JSON inventory data.
<p>Similar to the <aclass="reference internal"href="#facter"><em>facter</em></a> module, this returns JSON inventory data.
@ -427,6 +448,14 @@ be a relative or absolute path.</li>
<ulclass="simple">
<ulclass="simple">
<li>Optionally sets the user’s primary group, takes a group name.</li>
<li>Optionally sets the user’s primary group, takes a group name.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><em>groups</em>:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li>Put the user in the specified groups, takes comma delimited group names.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>append</em>:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li>If true, will only add additional groups to the user listed in ‘groups’, rather than making the user only be in those specified groups.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>shell</em>:</p>
<p><em>shell</em>:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<ulclass="simple">
<li>Optionally sets the user’s shell.</li>
<li>Optionally sets the user’s shell.</li>
@ -437,16 +466,24 @@ be a relative or absolute path.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><em>password</em>:</p>
<p><em>password</em>:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<ulclass="simple">
<li>Sets the user’s password to this crypted value. Pass in a result from crypt. See the users
<li>Sets the user’s password to this crypted value. Pass in a result from crypt. See the users example in the github examples directory for what this looks like in a playbook.</li>
example in the github examples directory for what this looks like in a playbook.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><em>state</em>:</p>
<p><em>state</em>:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<ulclass="simple">
<li>Defaults to ‘present’. When ‘absent’, the user account will be removed if present.</li>
<li>Defaults to ‘present’. When ‘absent’, the user account will be removed if present. Optionally additional removal behaviors can be set with the ‘force’ or ‘remove’ parameter values (see below).</li>
</ul>
<p><em>force</em>:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li>When used with a state of ‘absent’, the behavior denoted in the ‘userdel’ manpage for –force is also used when removing the user. Value is ‘yes’ or ‘no’, default is ‘no’.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>remove</em>:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li>When used with a state of ‘absent’, the behavior denoted in the ‘userdel’ manpage for –remove is also used when removing the user. Value is ‘yes’ or ‘no’, default is ‘no’.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p>Example action from Ansible <aclass="reference internal"href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>:</p>
<p>Example action from Ansible <aclass="reference internal"href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>:</p>
* either 'absent', or 'present'. 'present' is the default.
To control members of the group, see the users resource.
Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
group name=somegroup state=present
ohai
ohai
````
````
@ -327,6 +350,14 @@ Creates user accounts, manipulates existing user accounts, and removes user acco
* Optionally sets the user's primary group, takes a group name.
* Optionally sets the user's primary group, takes a group name.
*groups*:
* Put the user in the specified groups, takes comma delimited group names.
*append*:
* If true, will only add additional groups to the user listed in 'groups', rather than making the user only be in those specified groups.
*shell*:
*shell*:
* Optionally sets the user's shell.
* Optionally sets the user's shell.
@ -337,17 +368,25 @@ Creates user accounts, manipulates existing user accounts, and removes user acco
*password*:
*password*:
* Sets the user's password to this crypted value. Pass in a result from crypt. See the users
* Sets the user's password to this crypted value. Pass in a result from crypt. See the users example in the github examples directory for what this looks like in a playbook.
example in the github examples directory for what this looks like in a playbook.
*state*:
*state*:
* Defaults to 'present'. When 'absent', the user account will be removed if present.
* Defaults to 'present'. When 'absent', the user account will be removed if present. Optionally additional removal behaviors can be set with the 'force' or 'remove' parameter values (see below).
*force*:
* When used with a state of 'absent', the behavior denoted in the 'userdel' manpage for --force is also used when removing the user. Value is 'yes' or 'no', default is 'no'.
*remove*:
* When used with a state of 'absent', the behavior denoted in the 'userdel' manpage for --remove is also used when removing the user. Value is 'yes' or 'no', default is 'no'.
Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
user name=mdehaan comment=awesome passwd=awWxVV.JvmdHw createhome=yes
user name=mdehaan comment=awesome passwd=awWxVV.JvmdHw createhome=yes
Michael DeHaan
13 years ago