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Ansible tips

ansible-playbook useful switches

ansible-playbook [-C] [-D] -i <inventory> [-u <ssh-user>] [-e <var=value>] [-t tag1,tag2] [--list-hosts] [-l host1,host2] play.yml

-C check_mode
-D show file diffs

ad-hoc commands

ansible -i <inventory> <host/hostgroup> -a <command>

Example. Print date for instances in group api_socket and env beta:

ansible -i inventory/beta tag_Role_api_socket -a "date"
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