User GuideΒΆ
Welcome to the Ansible User Guide!
This guide covers how to work with Ansible, including using the command line, working with inventory, and writing playbooks.
- Ansible Quickstart
- Getting Started
- Working with Command Line Tools
- Introduction To Ad-Hoc Commands
- Working with Inventory
- Inventory basics: hosts and groups
- Assigning a variable to one machine: host variables
- Assigning a variable to many machines: group variables
- Default groups
- Organizing host and group variables
- How variables are merged
- Using multiple inventory sources
- Connecting to hosts: behavioral inventory parameters
- Working With Dynamic Inventory
- Working With Playbooks
- Understanding Privilege Escalation
- Ansible Vault
- What Can Be Encrypted With Vault
- Vault IDs and Multiple Vault Passwords
- Creating Encrypted Files
- Editing Encrypted Files
- Rekeying Encrypted Files
- Encrypting Unencrypted Files
- Decrypting Encrypted Files
- Viewing Encrypted Files
- Use encrypt_string to create encrypted variables to embed in yaml
- Providing Vault Passwords
- Vault Password Client Scripts
- Speeding Up Vault Operations
- Vault Format
- Vault Payload Format 1.1 - 1.2
- Working with Patterns
- Working With Modules
- Working With Plugins
- BSD Support
- Windows Guides