223 lines
No EOL
12 KiB
HTML
223 lines
No EOL
12 KiB
HTML
|
|
|
|
<!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 — Ansible v0.0.1 documentation</title>
|
|
<link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/default.css" type="text/css" />
|
|
<link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" />
|
|
<script type="text/javascript">
|
|
var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = {
|
|
URL_ROOT: '',
|
|
VERSION: '0.0.1',
|
|
COLLAPSE_INDEX: false,
|
|
FILE_SUFFIX: '.html',
|
|
HAS_SOURCE: true
|
|
};
|
|
</script>
|
|
<script type="text/javascript" src="_static/jquery.js"></script>
|
|
<script type="text/javascript" src="_static/underscore.js"></script>
|
|
<script type="text/javascript" src="_static/doctools.js"></script>
|
|
<link rel="top" title="Ansible v0.0.1 documentation" href="#" />
|
|
<link rel="next" title="Getting Started" href="gettingstarted.html" />
|
|
</head>
|
|
<body>
|
|
<div class="related">
|
|
<h3>Navigation</h3>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
|
|
<a href="genindex.html" title="General Index"
|
|
accesskey="I">index</a></li>
|
|
<li class="right" >
|
|
<a href="gettingstarted.html" title="Getting Started"
|
|
accesskey="N">next</a> |</li>
|
|
<li><a href="#">Ansible v0.0.1 documentation</a> »</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="document">
|
|
<div class="documentwrapper">
|
|
<div class="bodywrapper">
|
|
<div class="body">
|
|
|
|
<div class="section" id="ansible">
|
|
<h1>Ansible<a class="headerlink" href="#ansible" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
|
|
<p>Ansible is a radically simple deployment, configuration, 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.</p>
|
|
<p>Ansible isn’t just for configuration – it’s also great for Ad-Hoc tasks,
|
|
quickly firing off commands against nodes. Where Ansible excels though, is expressing complex multi-node deployment processes, executing complex sequences of commands on different hosts through the “playbooks” feature.</p>
|
|
<p>Ansible does not require programming in any particular language – you can write modules
|
|
as scripts or programs that return simple JSON.</p>
|
|
<p>Why use Ansible versus something else? (Puppet, Chef, Fabric, Capistrano,
|
|
mCollective, Func, SaltStack, etc?) It will have far less code, it
|
|
will be more correct, and it will be the easiest thing to hack on and
|
|
use you’ll ever see – regardless of your favorite language of choice.
|
|
Systems management doesn’t have to be complicated. Ansible’s docs will remain
|
|
short & simple, and the source will be blindingly obvious.</p>
|
|
<div class="section" id="design-goals">
|
|
<h2>Design Goals<a class="headerlink" href="#design-goals" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
|
<ul class="simple">
|
|
<li>Dead simple setup</li>
|
|
<li>Super fast & 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>Modules can be written in ANY language</li>
|
|
<li>Awesome API for creating very powerful distributed scripts</li>
|
|
<li>Be usable as non-root</li>
|
|
<li>Create the easiest config management system to use, ever.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="section" id="about-the-author">
|
|
<h2>About the Author<a class="headerlink" href="#about-the-author" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
|
<p>Michael DeHaan is a Raleigh, NC based software developer and architect. He created other
|
|
DevOps programs such as Cobbler, the popular Linux install server.
|
|
Cobbler is used to deploy mission critical systems all over the planet, in industries
|
|
ranging from massively multiplayer gaming, core internet infrastructure, finance,
|
|
chip design, and more. Michael also helped co-author of Func, which is used
|
|
to orchestrate systems in lots of diverse places.</p>
|
|
<p>Ansible is an GPLv3 licensed open source project, so see the contributions section for how to
|
|
get involved.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="section" id="contents">
|
|
<h1>Contents<a class="headerlink" href="#contents" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
|
|
<div class="toctree-wrapper compound">
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html">Getting Started</a><ul>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#developer-requirements">Developer Requirements</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#getting-ansible">Getting Ansible</a><ul>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#python-distutils">Python Distutils</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#via-rpm">Via RPM</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#your-first-commands">Your first commands</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html">Patterns</a><ul>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html#targetting-all-systems">Targetting All Systems</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html#specific-hosts">Specific Hosts</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html#groups">Groups</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html#wildcards">Wildcards</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html#mixing-things-up">Mixing Things Up</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html">Ansible Modules</a><ul>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#about-modules">About Modules</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#idempotence">Idempotence</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#command">command</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#copy">copy</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#facter">facter</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#git">git</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#ohai">ohai</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#ping">ping</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#service">service</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#setup">setup</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#template">template</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#user">user</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#yum">yum</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#writing-your-own-modules">WRITING YOUR OWN MODULES</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="YAMLScripts.html">YAML Scripts</a><ul>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="YAMLScripts.html#yaml-basics">YAML Basics</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html">Playbooks</a><ul>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#playbook-example">Playbook Example</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#hosts-line">Hosts line</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#vars-section">Vars section</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#tasks-list">Tasks list</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#task-name-and-comment">Task name and comment</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#task-action">Task action</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#notify-statements">Notify statements</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#handlers">Handlers</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#includes">Includes</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#asynchronous-actions-and-polling">Asynchronous Actions and Polling</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#executing-a-playbook">Executing A Playbook</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="examples.html">Examples</a><ul>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="examples.html#parallelism-and-shell-commands">Parallelism and Shell Commands</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="examples.html#example-2-time-limited-background-operations">Example 2: Time Limited Background Operations</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="examples.html#examples-3-file-transfer-templating">Examples 3: File Transfer & Templating</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="examples.html#examples-3-deploying-from-source-control">Examples 3: Deploying From Source Control</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="api.html">API</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="communicate.html">Communicate and Get Involved</a></li>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="man.html">Man Pages</a><ul>
|
|
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="man.html#ansible-1">ansible(1)</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="sphinxsidebar">
|
|
<div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
|
|
<h3><a href="#">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Ansible</a><ul>
|
|
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#design-goals">Design Goals</a></li>
|
|
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#about-the-author">About the Author</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#contents">Contents</a><ul>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h4>Next topic</h4>
|
|
<p class="topless"><a href="gettingstarted.html"
|
|
title="next chapter">Getting Started</a></p>
|
|
<h3>This Page</h3>
|
|
<ul class="this-page-menu">
|
|
<li><a href="_sources/index.txt"
|
|
rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<div id="searchbox" style="display: none">
|
|
<h3>Quick search</h3>
|
|
<form class="search" action="search.html" method="get">
|
|
<input type="text" name="q" />
|
|
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
|
|
<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
|
|
</form>
|
|
<p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%">
|
|
Enter search terms or a module, class or function name.
|
|
</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="clearer"></div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="related">
|
|
<h3>Navigation</h3>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
|
|
<a href="genindex.html" title="General Index"
|
|
>index</a></li>
|
|
<li class="right" >
|
|
<a href="gettingstarted.html" title="Getting Started"
|
|
>next</a> |</li>
|
|
<li><a href="#">Ansible v0.0.1 documentation</a> »</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="footer">
|
|
© Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.
|
|
Last updated on Mar 08, 2012.
|
|
Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.
|
|
</div>
|
|
</body>
|
|
</html> |