Increase verbosity

Maximum verbosity for debugging; save to log

ansible-playbook site.yml -vvv -i inventory.ini 2>&1 | tee /tmp/ansible.log
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More ansible commands

  • Encrypt a variable with Vault
    ansible-vault encrypt_string 'supersecret' --name 'db_password'

    Inline-encrypt a value for use in playbook vars

  • Decrypt vault file
    ansible-vault view group_vars/all/vault.yml

    Display decrypted content of a vault-encrypted file

  • Copy file to remote
    ansible all -m copy -a 'src=./nginx.conf dest=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf owner=root mode=0644' -i inventory.ini

    Push a local file to all hosts with specific permissions

  • Restart service on all hosts
    ansible webservers -m service -a 'name=nginx state=restarted' -b -i inventory.ini

    Ad-hoc service restart with privilege escalation (-b)

  • Show inventory graph
    ansible-inventory -i inventory.ini --graph

    Display inventory group hierarchy as a tree

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