ANSIBLE(1)

NAME
ansible-pull - set up a remote copy of ansible on each managed node

SYNOPSIS

ansible -d DEST -U URL [options] [ <filename.yml> ]

DESCRIPTION

Ansible is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over SSH.

Use ansible-pull to set up a remote copy of ansible on each managed node, each set to run via cron and update playbook source via a source repository. This inverts the default push architecture of ansible into a pull architecture, which has near-limitless scaling potential.

The setup playbook can be tuned to change the cron frequency, logging locations, and parameters to ansible-pull.

This is useful both for extreme scale-out as well as periodic remediation. Usage of the fetch module to retrieve logs from ansible-pull runs would be an excellent way to gather and analyze remote logs from ansible-pull.

OPTIONAL ARGUMENT

filename.yml
    The name of one the YAML format files to run as an ansible playbook. This can be a relative path within the checkout. If not provided, ansible-pull will look for a playbook based on the host’s fully-qualified domain name, on the host hostname and finally a playbook named local.yml.

OPTIONS

-d DEST, --directory=DEST
    Directory to checkout repository into. If not provided, a subdirectory of ~/.ansible/pull/ will be used.

-U URL, --url=URL
    URL of the playbook repository to checkout.

-C CHECKOUT, --checkout=CHECKOUT
    Branch/Tag/Commit to checkout. If not provided, uses default behavior of module used to check out playbook repository.

-f, --force
    Force running of playbook even if unable to update playbook repository. This can be useful, for example, to enforce run-time state when a network connection may not always be up or possible.

-i PATH, --inventory=PATH
    The PATH to the inventory hosts file. This can be a relative path within the checkout.

--purge
    Purge the checkout after the playbook is run.

-m NAME, --module-name=NAME
    Module used to checkout playbook repository. Defaults to git.

AUTHOR

Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan. See the AUTHORS file for a complete list of contributors.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2012, Michael DeHaan

Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3 License.

SEE ALSO

ansible(1), ansible-playbook(1), ansible-doc(1)

Extensive documentation as well as IRC and mailing list info is available on the ansible home page: https://ansible.github.com/