Fix some example command line options, add some more links to home page.

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Michael DeHaan 2012-03-11 21:46:05 -04:00
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@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ is commonly referred to as &#8216;idempotent&#8217;.</p>
<p>Ansible can SCP lots of files to multiple machines in parallel, and
optionally use them as template sources.</p>
<p>To just transfer a file directly to many different servers:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible atlanta copy -a "/etc/hosts /tmp/hosts"</pre>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible atlanta -m copy -a "/etc/hosts /tmp/hosts"</pre>
</div>
<p>To use templating, first run the setup module to put the template
variables you would like to use on the remote host. Then use the
@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ to poll, it looks like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible all -B 3600 -a "/usr/bin/long_running_operation --do-stuff"</pre>
</div>
<p>If you do decide you want to check on the job status later, you can:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible all -n job_status -a jid=123456789</pre>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible all -m async_status -a "jid=123456789"</pre>
</div>
<p>Polling is built-in and looks like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible all -B 3600 -P 60 -a "/usr/bin/long_running_operation --do-stuff"</pre>

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@ -183,12 +183,12 @@ much learning curve. Ansible is dead simple and painless to extend.
For comparison, Puppet and Chef have about 60k lines of code.
Ansible&#8217;s core is a little over 1000 lines.</p>
<p>Ansible isn&#8217;t just for configuration &#8211; it&#8217;s also great for Ad-Hoc
tasks, quickly firing off commands against nodes. Where Ansible
excels though, is expressing complex multi-node deployment processes,
executing complex sequences of commands on different hosts through
<a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>.</p>
tasks, quickly firing off commands against nodes. See <a class="reference internal" href="examples.html"><em>Command Line Examples</em></a>.
Where Ansible excels though, is expressing complex multi-node
deployment processes, executing complex sequences of commands on
different hosts through <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>.</p>
<p>Extending ansible does not require programming in any particular
language &#8211; you can write modules as scripts or programs that return
language &#8211; you can write <a class="reference internal" href="modules.html"><em>Ansible Modules</em></a> as scripts or programs that return
simple JSON. It&#8217;s also trivially easy to just execute useful shell
commands.</p>
<p>Why use Ansible versus something else? (Puppet, Chef, Fabric,

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible-playbook</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible-playbook" lang="en"><a id="id365972"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook &lt;filename.yml&gt; … [options]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment system. Ansible-playbook is the tool
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible-playbook</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible-playbook" lang="en"><a id="id490422"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook &lt;filename.yml&gt; … [options]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment system. Ansible-playbook is the tool
used to run them. See the project home page (link below) for more information.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="ARGUMENTS"><a id="_arguments"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>filename.yml</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible" lang="en"><a id="id471818"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible &lt;host-pattern&gt; [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible" lang="en"><a id="id531620"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible &lt;host-pattern&gt; [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
SSH.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="ARGUMENTS"><a id="_arguments"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
<span class="strong"><strong>host-pattern</strong></span>
</span></dt><dd>

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@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ optionally use them as template sources.
To just transfer a file directly to many different servers::
ansible atlanta copy -a "/etc/hosts /tmp/hosts"
ansible atlanta -m copy -a "/etc/hosts /tmp/hosts"
To use templating, first run the setup module to put the template
variables you would like to use on the remote host. Then use the
@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ to poll, it looks like this::
If you do decide you want to check on the job status later, you can::
ansible all -n job_status -a jid=123456789
ansible all -m async_status -a "jid=123456789"
Polling is built-in and looks like this::

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@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ For comparison, Puppet and Chef have about 60k lines of code.
Ansible's core is a little over 1000 lines.
Ansible isn't just for configuration -- it's also great for Ad-Hoc
tasks, quickly firing off commands against nodes. Where Ansible
excels though, is expressing complex multi-node deployment processes,
executing complex sequences of commands on different hosts through
:doc:`playbooks`.
tasks, quickly firing off commands against nodes. See :doc:`examples`.
Where Ansible excels though, is expressing complex multi-node
deployment processes, executing complex sequences of commands on
different hosts through :doc:`playbooks`.
Extending ansible does not require programming in any particular
language -- you can write modules as scripts or programs that return
language -- you can write :doc:`modules` as scripts or programs that return
simple JSON. It's also trivially easy to just execute useful shell
commands.

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