Ansible – AdHoc Commands

This will copy the file specified in src to the location specified in dest across all nodes.

ansible all -m copy -a “src=/home/vtom/ansibleProject01/notes.txt dest=/home/Ansible/notes.txt”

This will show useful ansible config including the version and location of the config file:

ansible –version

Create sample ansible configuration with comments

ansible-config init –disabled > /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

Check connectivity from ansible to hosts defined in inventory

ansible [all|IP|group] -m ping -v

This will list out the Ansible modules installed on the local machine

ansible-doc -l