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<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" type="text/css" href="./docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible" lang="en"><a id="id547391"></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>
A name of a group in the inventory file, a shell-like glob selecting hosts in inventory
file, or any combination of the two seperated by semicolons.
</dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="OPTIONS"><a id="_options"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-i</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--inventory</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Path to the inventory hosts file, which defaults to /etc/ansible/hosts.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-f</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--forks</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Level of parallelism. Specify as an integer, the default is 5.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-m</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--module-name</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Module name to execute.
</dd><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>-p</strong></span>, <span class="strong"><strong>--pattern</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
Hostname pattern. Accepts shell-like globs which can be seperated with ";"
The default is "*" which matches all hosts in the ansible hosts file. Group
names from the ansible inventory file can also be used.
</dd></dl></div><p>See ansible --help for additional options.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="INVENTORY"><a id="_inventory"></a><h2>INVENTORY</h2><p>Ansible stores the hosts it can potentially operate on in an inventory
file. The syntax is one host per line. Groups headers are allowed and
are included on their own line, enclosed in square brackets.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="FILES"><a id="_files"></a><h2>FILES</h2><p>/etc/ansible/hostsDefault hosts file</p><p>/usr/share/ansibleDefault module library</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="ENVIRONMENT"><a id="_environment"></a><h2>ENVIRONMENT</h2><p>The following environment variables may specified.</p><p>ANSIBLE_HOSTS Override the default ansible hosts file</p><p>ANSIBLE_LIBRARYOverride the default ansible module library path</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="AUTHOR"><a id="_author"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan. See the AUTHORS file
for a complete list of contributors.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="COPYRIGHT"><a id="_copyright"></a><h2>COPYRIGHT</h2><p>Copyright © 2012, Michael DeHaan</p><p>Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3 License.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="SEE ALSO"><a id="_see_also"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p>Ansible home page: <a class="ulink" href="https://github.com/mpdehaan/ansible/" target="_top">https://github.com/mpdehaan/ansible/</a></p><p><span class="strong"><strong>ansible-modules</strong></span>(5)</p><p><span class="strong"><strong>ansible-playbook</strong></span>(5)</p></div></div></body></html>