Linux Administration Cookbook

The shell and command modules

Like raw, you can pass native commands to a remote machine using Ansible (in fact, you could translate an entire bash script into an Ansible role remarkably easily), though usually this type of functionality is reserved for instances where you absolutely can't achieve what you're trying to do with dedicated Ansible modules.

These two do, however, require Python to be on the remote machine.

First, let's look at the shell module:

$ ansible -b -k -m shell -a 'whoami > BUTTER; cat BUTTER | rev' -i 192.168.33.11, 192.168.33.11SSH password: 192.168.33.11 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>toor

Note that I'm basically running a small one-liner within my Ansible command. 

Next, let's use the command module:

$ ansible -b -k -m command ...