<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="./docbook-xsl.css"type="text/css"/><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"/></head><body><divxml:lang="en"class="refentry"title="ansible"lang="en"><aid="id408842"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><divclass="refsynopsisdiv"title="Synopsis"><aid="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible <host-pattern> [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><spanclass="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
Hostname pattern. Accepts shell-like globs which can be seperated with ";"
The default is "*" which matches all hosts in the ansible hosts file. Group
names from the ansible inventory file can also be used.
</dd></dl></div><p>See ansible --help for additional options.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="INVENTORY"><aid="_inventory"></a><h2>INVENTORY</h2><p>Ansible stores the hosts it can potentially operate on in an inventory
file. The syntax is one host per line. Groups headers are allowed and
are included on their own line, enclosed in square brackets.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="FILES"><aid="_files"></a><h2>FILES</h2><p>/etc/ansible/hosts—Default hosts file</p><p>/usr/share/ansible—Default module library</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="ENVIRONMENT"><aid="_environment"></a><h2>ENVIRONMENT</h2><p>The following environment variables may specified.</p><p>ANSIBLE_HOSTS —Override the default ansible hosts file</p><p>ANSIBLE_LIBRARY—Override the default ansible module library path</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="AUTHOR"><aid="_author"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan. See the AUTHORS file
