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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