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Installation OSX

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brew install ansible

Installation Ubuntu

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sudo apt install ansible

Playbooks

Run on all hosts defined

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ansible-playbook <YAML>

Run 10 hosts parallel

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ansible-playbook <YAML> -f 10

Verbose on successful tasks

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ansible-playbook <YAML> --verbose

Test run

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ansible-playbook <YAML> -C

Dry run

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ansible-playbook <YAML> -C -D

Run on single host

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ansible-playbook <YAML> -l <host>

Run Infos

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ansible-playbook <YAML> --list-hosts

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ansible-playbook <YAML> --list-tasks

Syntax Check

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ansible-playbook --syntax-check <YAML>

Remote Execution

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ansible all -m ping

Execute arbitrary commands

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ansible <hostgroup> -a <command>

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ansible all -a "ifconfig -a"

Debugging

List facts and state of a host

All facts for one host

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ansible <host> -m setup

Only ansible fact for one host

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ansible <host> -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_eth*'

Only facter facts but for all hosts

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ansible all -m setup -a 'filter=facter_*'

Save facts to per-host files in /tmp/facts

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ansible all -m setup --tree /tmp/facts