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API
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The Python API is very powerful, and is how the ansible CLI and ansible-playbook
are implemented.
It's pretty simple::
import ansible.runner
runner = ansible.runner.Runner(
module_name='ping',
module_args='',
pattern='web*',
forks=10
)
datastructure = runner.run()
The run method returns results per host, grouped by whether they
could be contacted or not. Return types are module specific, as
expressed in the 'ansible-modules' documentation.::
{
"dark" : {
"web1.example.com" : "failure message"
}
"contacted" : {
"web2.example.com" : 1
}
}
A module can return any type of JSON data it wants, so Ansible can
be used as a framework to rapidly build powerful applications and scripts.