wakproductions/ansible_notes.md

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    Ansible Examples Repository
To see what hosts would be affected by a playbook before you run it, you can do this:
ansible-playbook playbook.yml --list-hosts

Run Ansible playbook
ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml

Using with AWS

To use Ansible with AWS you need boto3 installed on your system, a Python scripting tool that interfaces AWS.


Scott's Example of Updating the Inventories

To run the "update all hostnames" task, he used the command:
ansible-playbook -i inventories/production2 playbook_update_hosts.yml

Test Web Server Ping

ansible-wak$ ansible webservers -i inventories -u ubuntu -m ping
54.89.216.138 | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false, 
    "ping": "pong"
}