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now time to read some of the more real-world <a class="reference internal" href="examples.html"><em>Command Line Examples</em></a>, and explore
what you can do with different modules, as well as the Ansible
<a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a> language. Ansible is not just about running commands, it
also has powerful configuration and deployment features. There&#8217;s more to
also has powerful configuration management and deployment features. There&#8217;s more to
explore, but you already have a fully working infrastructure!</p>
<div class="admonition-see-also admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>

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<a class="reference external image-reference" href="http://photos.michaeldehaan.net/ncsu/h3b63b68e#h3b63b68e"><img alt="&quot;&quot;" src="http://ansible.github.com/mpd_tubes.jpg" style="width: 225px; height: 225px;" /></a>
<div class="section" id="introducing-ansible">
<h1>Introducing Ansible<a class="headerlink" href="#introducing-ansible" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>Ansible is a radically simple deployment, configuration, and command
execution framework. Other similar tools have been too
<p>Ansible is a radically simple deployment, model-driven configuration management,
and command execution framework. Other tools in this space have been too
complicated for too long, require too much bootstrapping, and have too
much learning curve. Ansible is dead simple and painless to extend.
For comparison, Puppet and Chef have about 60k lines of code.
Ansible&#8217;s core is a little over 1000 lines.</p>
<p>Ansible isn&#8217;t just for configuration &#8211; it&#8217;s also great for Ad-Hoc
<p>Ansible isn&#8217;t just for idempotent configuration &#8211; it&#8217;s also great for ad-hoc
tasks, quickly firing off commands against nodes. See <a class="reference internal" href="examples.html"><em>Command Line Examples</em></a>.
Where Ansible excels though, is expressing complex multi-node
deployment processes, executing complex sequences of commands on
different hosts through <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>.</p>
deployment processes, executing ordered sequences on
different sets of nodes through <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>.</p>
<p>Extending ansible does not require programming in any particular
language &#8211; you can write <a class="reference internal" href="modules.html"><em>Ansible Modules</em></a> as scripts or programs that return
simple JSON. It&#8217;s also trivially easy to just execute useful shell
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<li>Super fast &amp; parallel by default</li>
<li>No server or client daemons; use existing SSHd out of the box</li>
<li>No additional software required on client boxes</li>
<li>Can be easily run from a checkout, no installation required</li>
<li>Modules are idempotent</li>
<li>Modules can be written in ANY language</li>
<li>Awesome API for creating very powerful distributed scripts</li>
<li>Be very usable as non-root</li>
<li>Does not have to run remote steps as root</li>
<li>Create the easiest config management system to use, ever.</li>
</ul>
</div>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible-playbook</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-playbook" lang="en"><a id="id535032"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook &lt;filename.yml&gt; … [options]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment system. Ansible-playbook is the tool
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible-playbook</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-playbook" lang="en"><a id="id510968"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook &lt;filename.yml&gt; … [options]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment system. Ansible-playbook is the tool
used to run them. See the project home page (link below) for more information.</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>filename.yml</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<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="id468234"></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
<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="id522608"></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
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>

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Introducing Ansible
===================
Ansible is a radically simple deployment, configuration, and command
execution framework. Other similar tools have been too
Ansible is a radically simple deployment, model-driven configuration management,
and command execution framework. Other tools in this space have been too
complicated for too long, require too much bootstrapping, and have too
much learning curve. Ansible is dead simple and painless to extend.
For comparison, Puppet and Chef have about 60k lines of code.
Ansible's core is a little over 1000 lines.
Ansible's core is a little over 1000 lines.
Ansible isn't just for configuration -- it's also great for Ad-Hoc
Ansible isn't just for idempotent configuration -- it's also great for ad-hoc
tasks, quickly firing off commands against nodes. See :doc:`examples`.
Where Ansible excels though, is expressing complex multi-node
deployment processes, executing complex sequences of commands on
different hosts through :doc:`playbooks`.
deployment processes, executing ordered sequences on
different sets of nodes through :doc:`playbooks`.
Extending ansible does not require programming in any particular
language -- you can write :doc:`modules` as scripts or programs that return
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* Super fast & parallel by default
* No server or client daemons; use existing SSHd out of the box
* No additional software required on client boxes
* Can be easily run from a checkout, no installation required
* Modules are idempotent
* Modules can be written in ANY language
* Awesome API for creating very powerful distributed scripts
* Be very usable as non-root
* Does not have to run remote steps as root
* Create the easiest config management system to use, ever.
Resources

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