Limit to specific hosts ansible
Run playbook only on specified hosts
ansible-playbook site.yml --limit 'web-01,web-02' -i inventory.ini
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Run specific tags
ansible-playbook site.yml --tags 'config,restart' -i inventory.ini
Skip specific tags
ansible-playbook site.yml --skip-tags 'slow,optional' -i inventory.ini
Increase verbosity
ansible-playbook site.yml -vvv -i inventory.ini 2>&1 | tee /tmp/ansible.log
Encrypt a variable with Vault
ansible-vault encrypt_string 'supersecret' --name 'db_password'
Decrypt vault file
ansible-vault view group_vars/all/vault.yml