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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible" lang="en"><a id="id477142"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible &lt;host-pattern&gt; [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
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SSH.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="ARGUMENTS"><a id="_arguments"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>host-pattern</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
A name of a group in the inventory file, a shell-like glob selecting hosts in inventory
file, or any combination of the two seperated by semicolons.
</dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="OPTIONS"><a id="_options"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-i</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--inventory</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Path to the inventory hosts file, which defaults to /etc/ansible/hosts.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-f</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--forks</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Level of parallelism. Specify as an integer, the default is 5.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-m</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--module-name</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Module name to execute.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
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<span class="strong"><strong>-M</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--module-path</strong></span>
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</span></dt><dd>
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Where to load modules from. The default is /usr/share/ansible
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-a</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--args</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Arguments to pass to the module
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-k</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--ask-pass</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Prompt for the SSH password instead of assuming key-based authentication with ssh-agent.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-o</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--one-line</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Try to output everything on one line.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-t</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--tree</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Save contents in this output directory, with the results named in a file named after each host.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-T</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--timeout</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Connection timeout to use when trying to talk to hosts, in seconds.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-B</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--background</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Runs commands in the background, killing the task after N seconds.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
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<span class="strong"><strong>-P</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--poll</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Poll a background job every (this many) seconds. Requires -B.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
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<span class="strong"><strong>-u</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--remote-user</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Use this remote username instead of root
</dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="INVENTORY"><a id="_inventory"></a><h2>INVENTORY</h2><p>Ansible stores the hosts it can potentially operate on in an inventory
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file. The syntax is one host per line. Groups headers are allowed and
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are included on their own line, enclosed in square brackets.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="FILES"><a id="_files"></a><h2>FILES</h2><p>/etc/ansible/hostsDefault inventory file</p><p>/usr/share/ansible/Default module library</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="ENVIRONMENT"><a id="_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_LIBRARYOverride the default ansible module library path</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="AUTHOR"><a id="_author"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan. See the AUTHORS file
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for a complete list of contributors.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="COPYRIGHT"><a id="_copyright"></a><h2>COPYRIGHT</h2><p>Copyright © 2012, Michael DeHaan</p><p>Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3 License.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="SEE ALSO"><a id="_see_also"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>ansible-playbook</strong></span>(1)</p><p>Extensive documentation as well as IRC and mailing list info
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is available on the ansible home page: <a class="ulink" href="https://ansible.github.com/" target="_top">https://ansible.github.com/</a></p></div></div></body></html>