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Learn Ansible - Second Edition
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Learn Ansible - Second Edition

by Russ McKendrick
May 2024
Beginner to intermediate
414 pages
9h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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3

The Ansible Commands

Before moving on to writing and executing more advanced playbooks, we will look at the rest of the built-in Ansible commands. Here, we will cover using the commands that make up Ansible. Toward the end of this chapter, we will install a third-party tool to visualize our host inventory.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Inbuilt commands
  • Third-party commands

Inbuilt commands

When we installed Ansible, several different commands were installed. These were as follows:

  • ansible
  • ansible-config
  • ansible-console
  • ansible-doc
  • ansible-galaxy
  • ansible-inventory
  • ansible-playbook
  • ansible-pull
  • ansible-vault

We already covered the ansible-galaxy command in Chapter 2, Exploring Ansible Galaxy. We will be looking at ansible-playbook ...

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ISBN: 9781835088913