User Guide

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

• Ansible Quickstart Guide
• • Control node
  • Inventory
  • Tasks
• Getting Started
  • Connecting to remote nodes
  • Next steps
• • Inventory basics: formats, hosts, and groups
  • Assigning a variable to one machine: host variables
  • Organizing host and group variables
  • Using multiple inventory sources
  • Inventory setup examples
• • Inventory script example: Cobbler
  • Inventory script example: OpenStack
  • Using inventory directories and multiple inventory sources
• Patterns: targeting hosts and groups
  • Common patterns
  • Advanced pattern options
• Introduction to ad-hoc commands
  • Use cases for ad-hoc tasks
• • ControlPersist and paramiko
  • Host key checking
• Working with command line tools
  • ansible-config
  • ansible-doc
  • ansible-inventory
  • ansible-pull
• Working With Playbooks
  • Creating Reusable Playbooks
  • Templating (Jinja2)
  • Loops
  • Advanced Playbooks Features
  • Best Practices
• Understanding privilege escalation: become
  • Risks and limitations of become
  • Become and Windows
• • What Can Be Encrypted With Vault
  • Creating Encrypted Files
  • Rekeying Encrypted Files
  • Decrypting Encrypted Files
  • Use encrypt_string to create encrypted variables to embed in yaml
  • Speeding Up Vault Operations
  • Vault Payload Format 1.1 - 1.2
• • Introduction to modules
  • Module Maintenance & Support
• Working With Plugins
  • Become Plugins
  • Callback Plugins
  • Connection Plugins
  • Inventory Plugins
  • Shell Plugins
  • Vars Plugins
  • Tests
• Ansible and BSD
  • Bootstrapping BSD
  • Which modules are available?
  • BSD facts
• Windows Guides
  • Windows Remote Management
  • Desired State Configuration
  • Windows Frequently Asked Questions
• • Installing collections