Labitat Ansible

Ansible playbooks for space infrastructure

Running ansible

ansible-playbook <playbook>.yml -D [-t <tag>[,<tag2>,..]] [-C]

• <playbook>.yml: the playbook you wish to run
• -D: prints the changes made, fx. the difference between old and updated files
• -t <tag>: limit the run to certain tags, tasks are usually tagged with their name
• -C: don't make any changes, just show what would be changed

example:

ansible-playbook jumbotron.yml -D -t irssi -C

This will log into the jumbotron server and show how the irssi configuration would be updated by your local changes in your ansible repo.

ansible-playbook jumbotron.yml -D -t irssi

This will actually do the changes, but again limit itself to just the tasks that are tagged irssi.