Red Hat Ansible for Network Automation
After completing this section, you should be able to:
Install Red Hat Ansible Engine.
List the programs installed with Ansible.
This is an example of how to install Red Hat Ansible Engine on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux control node.
[root@host ~]#subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-ansible-2-rpms[root@host ~]#yum install ansible
Any Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription can use this to install Ansible, with limited support scope.
If you have an official Red Hat Ansible Engine support subscription, use
subscription-managerto attach the control node to the pool containing it. See https://access.redhat.com/articles/3174981
Plug-ins are pieces of code that augment the core functionality of Ansible.
The ansible-doc tool displays information about installed Ansible plug-ins.
[user@host ~]$ansible-doc [-l|-s] [options] [-t <plugin type>] [plugin]
Use the list option (-l) in conjunction with -t TYPE to list plug-ins of a given type.
When -l is used without a type, it defaults to type module.
Valid types are cache, callback, connection, inventory, lookup, shell, module, strategy, and vars.
[user@host ~]$ansible-doc -t connection -l
To find information about a plug-in that is not of type module, you must give its type.
[user@host ~]$ansible-doc -t connection network_cli
These Ansible command line programs provide important functionality.
ansibleRun ad hoc Ansible commands.
ansible-configView, edit, and manage Ansible configuration.
ansible-docAnsible plug-in documentation.
ansible-inventoryDisplay or dump the configured inventory.
ansible-playbookRun an Ansible Playbook, executing tasks on targeted hosts.
