Commit 37adadcc by Michael DeHaan

Updating docs, added extensive info on playbook async + external vars_files for…

Updating docs, added extensive info on playbook async + external vars_files for keeping variables outside of
the playbook file.
parent cf4ac3b6
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example is for configuration management where you
are starting from a clean OS with no extra software installed, adopting systems
that are already deployed.</p>
<p>Ansible is also great for running ad-hoc tasks across a wide variety of Linux, Unix, and <a href="#id1"><span class="problematic" id="id2">*</span></a>BSDs.
<p>Ansible is also great for running ad-hoc tasks across a wide variety of Linux, Unix, and BSDs.
Because it just uses the basic tools available on the system, it is exceptionally cross platform
without needing to install management packages on each node.</p>
<p>It also excels for writing distributed
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html">Playbooks</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#playbook-example">Playbook Example</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#hosts-line">Hosts line</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#user-line">User line</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#vars-section">Vars section</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#tasks-list">Tasks list</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#task-name-and-action">Task name and action</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#notify-statements">Notify statements</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#handlers">Handlers</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#includes">Includes</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#using-includes-to-assign-classes-of-systems">Using Includes To Assign Classes of Systems</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#asynchronous-actions-and-polling">Asynchronous Actions and Polling</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#power-tricks">Power Tricks</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#external-variables-and-sensitive-data">External Variables And Sensitive Data</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#include-files-and-reuse">Include Files And Reuse</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#using-includes-to-assign-classes-of-systems">Using Includes To Assign Classes of Systems</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#asynchronous-actions-and-polling">Asynchronous Actions and Polling</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html#executing-a-playbook">Executing A Playbook</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible-playbook</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible-playbook" lang="en"><a id="id446525"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook &lt;filename.yml&gt; … [options]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment system. Ansible-playbook is the tool
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible-playbook</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible-playbook" lang="en"><a id="id320402"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook &lt;filename.yml&gt; … [options]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="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><div class="refsect1" title="ARGUMENTS"><a id="_arguments"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>filename.yml</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible" lang="en"><a id="id302038"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible &lt;host-pattern&gt; [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible" lang="en"><a id="id570190"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible &lt;host-pattern&gt; [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
SSH.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="ARGUMENTS"><a id="_arguments"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>host-pattern</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>
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......@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ be a relative or absolute path.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>state</em>:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Can be either &#8216;installed&#8217; or &#8216;removed&#8217;</li>
<li>Can be either &#8216;installed&#8217;, &#8216;latest&#8217;, or &#8216;removed&#8217;</li>
</ul>
<p><em>list</em>:</p>
<ul class="simple">
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......@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ example is for configuration management where you
are starting from a clean OS with no extra software installed, adopting systems
that are already deployed.
Ansible is also great for running ad-hoc tasks across a wide variety of Linux, Unix, and *BSDs.
Ansible is also great for running ad-hoc tasks across a wide variety of Linux, Unix, and BSDs.
Because it just uses the basic tools available on the system, it is exceptionally cross platform
without needing to install management packages on each node.
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