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PROGRAM:
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
--ask-become-pass
Ask for privilege escalation password.
-k, --ask-pass
Prompt for the connection password, if it is needed for the transport used. For
example, using ssh and not having a key-based authentication with ssh-agent.
--ask-su-pass
Prompt for su password, used with --su (deprecated, use become).
-K, --ask-sudo-pass
Prompt for the password to use with --sudo, if any (deprecated, use become).
--ask-vault-pass
Prompt for vault password.
-C, --check
Do not make any changes on the remote system, but test resources to see what might
have changed. Note this can not scan all possible resource types and is only a
simulation.
-c CONNECTION, --connection=CONNECTION
Connection type to use. Most common options are paramiko (SSH), ssh, winrm and local.
local is mostly useful for crontab or kickstarts.
-D, --diff
When changing any templated files, show the unified diffs of how they changed. When
used with --check, shows how the files would have changed if --check were not used.
-e EXTRA_VARS, --extra-vars=EXTRA_VARS
Extra variables to inject into a playbook, in key=value key=value format or as quoted
YAML/JSON (hashes and arrays). To load variables from a file, specify the file
preceded by @ (e.g. @vars.yml).
--flush-cache
Clear the fact cache.
--force-handlers
Run handlers even if a task fails.
-f NUM, --forks=NUM
Level of parallelism. NUM is specified as an integer, the default is 5.
-h, --help
Show help page and exit
-i PATH, --inventory=PATH
The PATH to the inventory, which defaults to /etc/ansible/hosts. Alternatively you can
use a comma separated list of hosts or single host with traling comma host,.
-l SUBSET, --limit=SUBSET
Further limits the selected host/group patterns. You can prefix it with ~ to indicate
that the pattern in a regex.
--list-hosts
Outputs a list of matching hosts; does not execute anything else.
--list-tags
List all available tags; does not execute anything else.
--list-tasks
List all tasks that would be executed; does not execute anything else.
-M DIRECTORY, --module-path=DIRECTORY
The DIRECTORY search path to load modules from. The default is /usr/share/ansible.
This can also be set with the ANSIBLE_LIBRARY environment variable.
--private-key=PRIVATE_KEY_FILE
Use this file to authenticate the connection
--skip-tages=SKIP_TAGS
Only run plays and tasks whose tags do not match these values.
--start-at-task=START_AT
Start the playbook at the task matching this name.
--step
One-step-at-a-time: confirm each task before running.
-S, --su*
Run operations with su (deprecated, use become)
-R SU-USER, --su-user=SU_USER
run operations with su as this user (default=root) (deprecated, use become)
-s, --sudo
Run the command as the user given by -u and sudo to root (deprecated, use become).
--ssh-common-args='-o ProxyCommand="ssh -W %h:%p ..." ...'
Add the specified arguments to any sftp/scp/ssh command-line. Useful to set a
ProxyCommand to use a jump host, but any arguments that are accepted by all three
programs may be specified.
--sftp-extra-args='-f ...'
Add the specified arguments to any sftp command-line.
--scp-extra-args='-l ...'
Add the specified arguments to any scp command-line.
--ssh-extra-args='-R ...'
Add the specified arguments to any ssh command-line.
-U SUDO_USERNAME, --sudo-user=SUDO_USERNAME
Sudo to SUDO_USERNAME deafult is root. (deprecated, use become).
--skip-tags=SKIP_TAGS
Only run plays and tasks whose tags do not match these values.
--syntax-check
Look for syntax errors in the playbook, but don’t run anything
-t, TAGS, --tags=TAGS
Only run plays and tasks tagged with these values.
-T SECONDS, --timeout=SECONDS
Connection timeout to use when trying to talk to hosts, in SECONDS.
-u USERNAME, --user=USERNAME
Use this USERNAME to login to the target host, instead of the current user.
--vault-password-file=VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE
Vault password file.
-v, --verbose
Verbose mode, more output from successful actions will be shown. Give up to three
times for more output.
--version
Show program’s version number and exit.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables may be specified.
ANSIBLE_INVENTORY — Override the default ansible inventory file
ANSIBLE_LIBRARY — Override the default ansible module library path
ANSIBLE_CONFIG — Override the default ansible config file
Many more are available for most options in ansible.cfg
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