Ansible 2 cheatsheet

Ansible 2: Ad-hoc commands

6 common Ansible 2 tasks.

Check the Ansible version

Print the version, config file and module paths.

ansible --version

Test that Ansible can connect to every host in the inventory.

ansible all -i inventory.ini -m ping

Run a shell command on every host in the webservers group.

ansible webservers -i inventory.ini -m command -a "uptime"

Print the facts Ansible collects about a host.

ansible web1 -i inventory.ini -m setup

Copy a file with the copy module.

ansible webservers -i inventory.ini -m copy -a "src=app.conf dest=/etc/app.conf" --become

Restart a service on a group of hosts.

ansible webservers -i inventory.ini -m service -a "name=nginx state=restarted" --become