User Guide

This guide covers how to work with Ansible, including using the command line, working with inventory, and writing playbooks.

• Getting Started
  • Remote Connection Information
  • Host Key Checking
• • ansible
  • ansible-console
  • ansible-galaxy
  • ansible-playbook
  • ansible-vault
• • Parallelism and Shell Commands
  • Managing Packages
  • Deploying From Source Control
  • Time Limited Background Operations
• Working with Inventory
  • Host Variables
  • Groups of Groups, and Group Variables
  • Splitting Out Host and Group Specific Data
  • List of Behavioral Inventory Parameters
• • Inventory Script Example: Cobbler
  • Inventory Script Example: OpenStack
  • Using Inventory Directories and Multiple Inventory Sources
• Working With Playbooks
  • Creating Reusable Playbooks
  • Templating (Jinja2)
  • Loops
  • Advanced Playbooks Features
  • Best Practices
• • Become
  • Become and Networks
• Ansible Vault
  • Creating Encrypted Files
  • Rekeying Encrypted Files
  • Decrypting Encrypted Files
  • Use encrypt_string to create encrypted variables to embed in yaml
  • Providing Vault Passwords
  • Vault Payload Format 1.1
• Working With Modules
  • Return Values
  • Module Index
• • Action Plugins
  • Callback Plugins
  • Inventory Plugins
  • Shell Plugins
  • Vars Plugins
  • Tests
• BSD Support
  • Bootstrapping BSD
  • Which modules are available?
  • BSD Facts
• Windows Guides
  • Windows Remote Management
  • Desired State Configuration