ansible-playbook

Execute tasks defined in playbook on remote machines over SSH. More information: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-playbook.html.

• Run tasks in playbook:

ansible-playbook playbook

• Run tasks in playbook with custom host [i]nventory:

ansible-playbook playbook -i inventory_file

• Run tasks in playbook with [e]xtra variables defined via the command-line:

ansible-playbook playbook -e "variable1=value1 variable2=value2"

• Run tasks in playbook with [e]xtra variables defined in a JSON file:

ansible-playbook playbook -e "@variables.json"

• Run tasks in playbook for the given tags:

ansible-playbook playbook --tags tag1,tag2

• Run tasks in a playbook starting at a specific task:

ansible-playbook playbook --start-at task_name

• Run tasks in a playbook without making any changes (dry-run):

ansible-playbook playbook --check --diff