<pclass="last">Note that other than the <aclass="reference internal"href="modules.html#command"><em>command</em></a> module, ansible modules usually do
<pclass="last">Note that other than the command <emclass="xref std std-ref">modules</em>, ansible modules usually do
not work like simple scripts. They make the remote system look like
you state, and run the commands necessary to get it there. This
is commonly referred to as ‘idempotence’, and is a core design goal of ansible. However, we also
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<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible-playbook</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="./docbook-xsl.css"type="text/css"/><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"/></head><body><divxml:lang="en"class="refentry"title="ansible-playbook"lang="en"><aid="id442190"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><divclass="refsynopsisdiv"title="Synopsis"><aid="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook <filename.yml> … [options]</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><spanclass="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment system. Ansible-playbook is the tool
<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible-playbook</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="./docbook-xsl.css"type="text/css"/><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"/></head><body><divxml:lang="en"class="refentry"title="ansible-playbook"lang="en"><aid="id327160"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><divclass="refsynopsisdiv"title="Synopsis"><aid="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook <filename.yml> … [options]</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><spanclass="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment system. Ansible-playbook is the tool
used to run them. See the project home page (link below) for more information.</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="ARGUMENTS"><aid="_arguments"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2><divclass="variablelist"><dl><dt><spanclass="term">
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<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>ansible</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="./docbook-xsl.css"type="text/css"/><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"/></head><body><divxml:lang="en"class="refentry"title="ansible"lang="en"><aid="id409149"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><divclass="refsynopsisdiv"title="Synopsis"><aid="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible <host-pattern> [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><spanclass="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
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