ansible/

Ansible

Red Hat

Agentless automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure orchestration.

Infrastructure as CodeJSON

01Install

brew install ansible

02Global Flags

Flag	Type	Description
`--inventory/-i`	string	Path to inventory file or host list
`--limit/-l`	string	Limit to specific hosts
`--become/-b`	boolean	Run operations with privilege escalation
`--check/-C`	boolean	Dry run without making changes
`--diff/-D`	boolean	Show differences in changed files
`--verbose/-v`	boolean	Increase verbosity (use -vvv for more)

03Authentication

Methods

config-fileenvironment-variables

Env vars

ANSIBLE_CONFIGANSIBLE_INVENTORYANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILEANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER

Config files

~/.ansible.cfgansible.cfg

04Capabilities

Reference

binaryansible

checkansible --version

authconfig-file, environment-variables

formatstext

json flagANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=json