Restart service on all hosts

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

ansible webservers -m service -a 'name=nginx state=restarted' -b -i inventory.ini
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More ansible commands

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

    Display inventory group hierarchy as a tree

  • Test role locally with Molecule
    molecule test -s default

    Run full Molecule test suite: create, converge, verify, destroy

  • Test connectivity (ping)
    ansible all -i inventory.ini -m ping

    Verify SSH connectivity to all hosts in inventory

  • Run ad-hoc shell command
    ansible webservers -i inventory.ini -m shell -a 'df -h' -b

    Execute a shell command on all webservers with sudo (-b)

  • Gather facts for a host
    ansible myhost -i inventory.ini -m setup | jq '.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution'

    Collect and inspect Ansible facts for one host

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