Ad hoc Command
Command-line tools with ansible ad-hoc command are used to automate task on single or multiple managed nodes.
Shell Commands
Reboot a company’s servers in 10 parallel forks at a single time. For this, we need to set up the SSHagent for connection.
$ ssh-agent bash $ ssh-agent bash $ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
To run reboot for all your company servers in a group, named ‘abc’, in 10 parallel forks −
$ ansible abc -a "/sbin/reboot" -f 10
Transferring File
You can make the use the Ad-hoc commands for doing SCP (Secure Copy Protocol) lots of files in parallel on multiple machines.
- Transferring file to multiple servers/machines
$ ansible abc -m copy -a "src = /etc/yum.conf dest = /tmp/yum.conf"
- Creating new directory
$ ansible abc -m file -a "dest = /path/user1/new mode = 777 owner = user1 group = user1 state = directory"
- Deleting whole directory and files.
$ ansible abc -m file -a "dest = /path/user1/new state = absent"
Managing Packages
The following command checks if apt package is installed or not, but does not update it
$ansible abc -m apt -a "name = demo-nginx-1 state = present"
The following command checks if the package is not installed.
$ ansible abc -m apt -a "name = demo-nginx-1 state = absent"