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Check Mode ("Dry Run")
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:depth: 2
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.. versionadded:: 1.1
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When ansible-playbook is executed with --check it will not make any changes on remote systems. Instead, any module
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instrumented to support 'check mode' (which contains most of the primary core modules, but it is not required that all modules do
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this) will report what changes they would have made rather than making them. Other modules that do not support check mode will also take no action, but just will not report what changes they might have made.
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Check mode is just a simulation, and if you have steps that use conditionals that depend on the results of prior commands,
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it may be less useful for you. However it is great for one-node-at-time basic configuration management use cases.
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Example::
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ansible-playbook foo.yml --check
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.. _forcing_to_run_in_check_mode:
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Running a task in check mode
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````````````````````````````
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.. versionadded:: 1.3
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Sometimes you may want to have a task to be executed even in check
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mode. To achieve this, use the `always_run` clause on the task. Its
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value is a Jinja2 expression, just like the `when` clause. In simple
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cases a boolean YAML value would be sufficient as a value.
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Example::
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tasks:
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- name: this task is run even in check mode
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command: /something/to/run --even-in-check-mode
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always_run: yes
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As a reminder, a task with a `when` clause evaluated to false, will
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still be skipped even if it has a `always_run` clause evaluated to
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true.
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.. _diff_mode:
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Showing Differences with --diff
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```````````````````````````````
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.. versionadded:: 1.1
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The --diff option to ansible-playbook works great with --check (detailed above) but can also be used by itself. When this flag is supplied, if any templated files on the remote system are changed, and the ansible-playbook CLI will report back
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the textual changes made to the file (or, if used with --check, the changes that would have been made). Since the diff
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feature produces a large amount of output, it is best used when checking a single host at a time, like so::
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ansible-playbook foo.yml --check --diff --limit foo.example.com
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