Notes/docs/Command Snippets/Ansible Snippets.md

• WSL Fix for world-writable directories

export ANSIBLE_CONFIG=./ansible.cfg

• Ping

ansible all -m ping

• Gather facts

ansible all -m gather_facts

# Limit to one device
ansible all -m gather_facts --limit ADDRESS

• Elevate command to root user

# This will fail without sudo
ansible all -m apt -a update_cache=true

# This will succeed
# Equivalent to sudo apt-update
ansible all -m apt -a update_cache=true --become --ask-become-me-pass

• Install packages

ansible all -m apt -a name=vim --become --ask-become-pass

• Install/Update Package (multiple arguments)

ansible all -m apt -a "name=vim state=latest" --become --ask-become-pass

• sudo apt update equivalent

ansible all -m apt -a "name=apt state=latest" --become --ask-become-pass

• Specify username and password credentials when running a playbook

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -u root -k