Name

ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook

Synopsis

ansible-playbook <filename.yml> … [options]

DESCRIPTION

Ansible playbooks 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.

ARGUMENTS

filename.yml
The names of one or more YAML format files to run as ansible playbooks.

OPTIONS

-i, --inventory
Path to the inventory hosts file, which defaults to /etc/ansible/hosts.
-M, --module-path
Where to load modules from. The default is /usr/share/ansible
-f, --forks
Desired level of parallelism. Default 5.
-k, --ask-pass
Prompt for the SSH password instead of assuming key-based authentication with ssh-agent.

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables may specified.

ANSIBLE_HOSTS  — Override the default ansible hosts file

ANSIBLE_LIBRARY — Override the default ansible module library path

AUTHOR

Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan. See the AUTHORS file for a complete list of contributors.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2012, Michael DeHaan

Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3 License.

SEE ALSO

Extensive documentation as well as IRC and mailing list info is available on the ansible home page: https://ansible.github.com/