Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

We just have to use the Ansible command and pass the ping module as an argument to parameter -m. A successful execution will return the string pong. It signifies that Ansible can reach the server and execute tasks, subject to the authorization level of the user, of course:

$ ansible localhost -m pinglocalhost | SUCCESS => {    "changed": false,    "failed": false,    "ping": "pong"}