System modules

• aix_inittab – Manages the inittab on AIX
• aix_lvol – Configure AIX LVM logical volumes
• alternatives – Manages alternative programs for common commands
• at – Schedule the execution of a command or script file via the at command
• authorized_key – Adds or removes an SSH authorized key
• awall – Manage awall policies
• beadm – Manage ZFS boot environments on FreeBSD/Solaris/illumos systems.
• capabilities – Manage Linux capabilities
• cron – Manage cron.d and crontab entries
• cronvar – Manage variables in crontabs
• crypttab – Encrypted Linux block devices
• dconf – Modify and read dconf database
• debconf – Configure a .deb package
• facter – Runs the discovery program facter on the remote system
• filesystem – Makes a filesystem
• firewalld – Manage arbitrary ports/services with firewalld
• gconftool2 – Edit GNOME Configurations
• getent – A wrapper to the unix getent utility
• group – Add or remove groups
• hostname – Manage hostname
• interfaces_file – Tweak settings in /etc/network/interfaces files
• iptables – Modify the systems iptables
• java_cert – Uses keytool to import/remove key from java keystore(cacerts)
• java_keystore – Create or delete a Java keystore in JKS format.
• kernel_blacklist – Blacklist kernel modules
• known_hosts – Add or remove a host from the known_hosts file
• locale_gen – Creates or removes locales
• lvg – Configure LVM volume groups
• lvol – Configure LVM logical volumes
• make – Run targets in a Makefile
• mksysb – Generates AIX mksysb rootvg backups.
• modprobe – Load or unload kernel modules
• mount – Control active and configured mount points
• nosh – Manage services with nosh
• ohai – Returns inventory data from Ohai
• open_iscsi – Manage iscsi targets with open-iscsi
• openwrt_init – Manage services on OpenWrt.
• osx_defaults – osx_defaults allows users to read, write, and delete macOS user defaults from Ansible
• pam_limits – Modify Linux PAM limits
• pamd – Manage PAM Modules
• parted – Configure block device partitions
• ping – Try to connect to host, verify a usable python and return pong on success
• puppet – Runs puppet
• python_requirements_facts – Show python path and assert dependency versions
• reboot – Reboot a machine
• runit – Manage runit services
• seboolean – Toggles SELinux booleans
• sefcontext – Manages SELinux file context mapping definitions
• selinux – Change policy and state of SELinux
• selinux_permissive – Change permissive domain in SELinux policy
• seport – Manages SELinux network port type definitions
• service – Manage services
• service_facts – Return service state information as fact data
• setup – Gathers facts about remote hosts
• solaris_zone – Manage Solaris zones
• svc – Manage daemontools services
• sysctl – Manage entries in sysctl.conf.
• systemd – Manage services
• sysvinit – Manage SysV services.
• timezone – Configure timezone setting
• ufw – Manage firewall with UFW
• user – Manage user accounts
• vdo – Module to control VDO

Note

• (D): This marks a module as deprecated, which means a module is kept for backwards compatibility but usage is discouraged. The module documentation details page may explain more about this rationale.