Ansible: How to use Ad-Hoc commands and the inventory

Ansible – Ad-hoc commands

The ability to use ad-hoc commands in Ansible without the need for playbooks is a very powerful tool. In the old days of Linux and Unix administration (and even today!), the Admins would use a golden host or jump server with SSH keys and be able to hop around their environments running remote command and colleting data. Ad-hoc commands in Ansible gives us this same ability, but with a much more powerful tool at our fingertips.

In this demo:

• Run basic ad-hoc commands on localhost and remote servers
o Modules: ping, shell, copy, yum, setup, reboot
• Using the inventory to manage different operating systems, users and credentials
• Run ad-hoc commands on multiple hosts

My setup: I’m using a .pem key for authentication between my control node and the remote servers.

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It would be good to have a video on Execution Environment creation in AWX 19.X hosted on Kubernetes (operator based instances)