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Ansible tutorials

First Command

To check if ansible is working you can ping in all hosts using the following command

ansible -m ping all

Command structure

ansible -m <MODULO> -a <PARAMETRO> <HOSTS>

or

ansible <HOSTS> -m <MODULO> -a <PARAMETRO>

Note: for a complete list of modules visit https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/index.html

apt module

This module simply run apt. the example code is

ansible <HOST> -m apt -a "name=ncdu state=present update_cache=yes" --become

setup module

Retrieve all informations about the hosts.

ansible <HOST> -m setup

If you want to filter the infos

ansible <HOST> -m setup -a "filter=ansible_distribution"

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