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Ansible Snippets

  • WSL Fix for world-writable directories
export ANSIBLE_CONFIG=./ansible.cfg
  • Ping
ansible all -m ping
  • Gather facts
ansible all -m gather_facts

# Limit to one device
ansible all -m gather_facts --limit ADDRESS
  • Elevate command to root user
# This will fail without sudo
ansible all -m apt -a update_cache=true

# This will succeed
# Equivalent to sudo apt-update
ansible all -m apt -a update_cache=true --become --ask-become-me-pass
  • Install packages
ansible all -m apt -a name=vim --become --ask-become-pass
  • Install/Update Package (multiple arguments)
ansible all -m apt -a "name=vim state=latest" --become --ask-become-pass
  • sudo apt update equivalent
ansible all -m apt -a "name=apt state=latest" --become --ask-become-pass
  • Specify username and password credentials when running a playbook
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -u root -k