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. \" Date: 11/18/2013
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. \" Manual: System administration commands
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. \" Source: Ansible 1.4
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. \" Language: English
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.TH "ANSIBLE" "1" "11/18/2013" "Ansible 1\&.4" "System administration commands"
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.SH "NAME"
ansible-pull \- set up a remote copy of ansible on each managed node
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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ansible \- d DEST \- U URL [options] [ <filename\& .yml> ]
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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\fB Ansible\fR is an extra\- simple tool/framework/API for doing \* (Aqremote things\* (Aq over SSH\& .
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Use ansible\- pull to set up a remote copy of ansible on each managed node, each set to run via cron and update playbook source via a source repository\& . This inverts the default \fB push\fR architecture of ansible into a \fB pull\fR architecture, which has near\- limitless scaling potential\& .
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The setup playbook can be tuned to change the cron frequency, logging locations, and parameters to ansible\- pull\& .
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This is useful both for extreme scale\- out as well as periodic remediation\& . Usage of the \fI fetch\fR module to retrieve logs from ansible\- pull runs would be an excellent way to gather and analyze remote logs from ansible\- pull\& .
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.SH "OPTIONAL ARGUMENT"
.PP
\fB filename\& .yml\fR
.RS 4
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The name of one the YAML format files to run as an ansible playbook\& . This can be a relative path within the checkout\& . If not provided, ansible\- pull will look for a playbook based on the host\(cq s fully\- qualified domain name, on the host hostname and finally a playbook named
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\fB local\& .yml\fR \& .
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.SH "OPTIONS"
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\fB \- d\fR \fI DEST\fR , \fB \- \- directory=\fR \fI DEST\fR
.RS 4
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Directory to checkout repository into\& . If not provided, a subdirectory of ~/\& .ansible/pull/ will be used\& .
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.RE
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\fB \- U\fR \fI URL\fR , \fB \- \- url=\fR \fI URL\fR
.RS 4
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URL of the playbook repository to checkout\& .
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.RE
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\fB \- C\fR \fI CHECKOUT\fR , \fB \- \- checkout=\fR \fI CHECKOUT\fR
.RS 4
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Branch/Tag/Commit to checkout\& . If not provided, uses default behavior of module used to check out playbook repository\& .
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.PP
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\fB \- f\fR , \fB \- \- force\fR
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Force running of playbook even if unable to update playbook repository\& . This can be useful, for example, to enforce run\- time state when a network connection may not always be up or possible\& .
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.PP
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\fB \- i\fR \fI PATH\fR , \fB \- \- inventory=\fR \fI PATH\fR
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The
\fI PATH\fR
to the inventory hosts file\& . This can be a relative path within the checkout\& .
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\fB \- \- purge\fR
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Purge the checkout after the playbook is run\& .
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\fB \- m\fR \fI NAME\fR , \fB \- \- module\- name=\fR \fI NAME\fR
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Module used to checkout playbook repository\& . Defaults to git\& .
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.RE
.SH "AUTHOR"
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Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan\& . See the AUTHORS file for a complete list of contributors\& .
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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Copyright \(co 2012, Michael DeHaan
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Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3 License\& .
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\fB ansible\fR (1), \fB ansible\- playbook\fR (1), \fB ansible\- doc\fR (1)
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Extensive documentation as well as IRC and mailing list info is available on the ansible home page: https://ansible\& .github\& .com/
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.SH "AUTHOR"
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\fB :doctype:manpage\fR
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Author.
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