Ansible Generic Commands

To list hosts in inventory: 

 ansible-inventory --list -y 

 To ping all hosts: 

 ansible all -m ping -u glwhite 

 To scan a playbook for tasks without making changes: 

 ansible-playbook myplaybook.yml --list-tasks 

 To get a list of hosts affected by a playbook: 

 ansible-playbook myplaybook.yml --list-hosts --ask-vault-pass 

 To run a playbook: 

 ansible-playbook playbook.yml --ask-vault-pass 

 

 Adding the “ --ask-become-pass " argument, tells Ansible to ask for the user password for the account it uses. 

 Adding the “ --ask-vault-pass " argument, tells Ansible to ask for the vault password that it can use to decrypt the vars file that contains the become sudo password. 

 

 Ad-hoc command t list NFS shares: 

 ansible testservers -m shell -a 'df -h -T|grep -i nfs' -i ansible_hosts