Before going further deep into Ansible, it is time to get familiar with some important Ansible commands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ansible: It is an extra \u2013 simple root \/ framework \/API for doing \u201c remote Execution\u201c. This is the ad\u2013hoc command utility that allows for a \u201csingle task\u201d run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ansible-doc: It displays information on modules installed in Ansible Libraries . It displays a listing of modules and their short description, provides a printout of their documentation strings , and creates a short \u201c snippet \u201c which can be pasted into a Playbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ansible\u2013playbook: It is a toot used to execute sequential set of instruction written in a YAML structured file called \u201cplaybook\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ansible\u2013vault: It can encrypt any structured data file used By Ansible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ansible\u2013galaxy: it is a Shared repository for Ansible roles. The Ansible-galaxy Command can manage these roles or create a skeleton framework for roles you would like to upload to Galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ansible\u2013pull: It sets up a remote copy of Ansible on each managed node; each set runs through cron and updates Playbook source Through a source repository. This inverts the default push architecture of Ansible into a pull architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ansible\u2013console: It is an REPL that allows for running ad\u2013hoc tasks against a chosen inventory (based on dominis ansible\u2013shell).<\/p>\n\n\n