In this section, you will learn how you can verify your Ansible installation with simple ad hoc commands.
As discussed previously, Ansible can authenticate with your target hosts several ways. In this section, we will assume you want to make use of SSH keys, and that you have already generated your public and private key pair and applied your public key to all of your target hosts that you will be automating tasks on.
The ssh-copy-id utility is incredibly useful for distributing your public SSH key to your target hosts before you proceed any further. An example command might be ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa ansibleuser@web1.example.com.
To ensure Ansible can authenticate with your private key, you could ...
