Commit c9b2df61 by Michael DeHaan

Merge pull request #3043 from mvo5/feature/document-facts

Feature/document facts
parents 31b31a12 746edecf
......@@ -213,6 +213,16 @@ the remote nodes will be terminated.
Typically you'll be only be backgrounding long-running
shell commands or software upgrades only. Backgrounding the copy module does not do a background file transfer. :doc:`playbooks` also support polling, and have a simplified syntax for this.
Gathering Facts
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For each system facts are gathered. These can be used to implement conditional execution of tasks but also just to get ad-hoc information about your system. You can see all facts via::
$ ansible all -m setup
Its also possible to filter via and export the facts, see the "setup" module documentation for details how to do that.
Limiting Selected Hosts
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......@@ -204,7 +204,19 @@ further information on using Portfiles with MacPorts.
Ubuntu and Debian
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Ubuntu builds are available `in a PPA here <https://launchpad.net/~rquillo/+archive/ansible>`_
Ubuntu builds are available `in a PPA here <https://launchpad.net/~rquillo/+archive/ansible>`_.
In Ubuntu 13.04 (raring) its part of the backports repository:
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo apt-get install ansible/raring-backports
In Debian testing/unstable and Ubntu 13.10+ it is available via
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo apt-get install ansible
Debian/Ubuntu package recipes can also be built from the source checkout, run:
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