Using ansible-pull
Of course, the ideal way to work with Ansible code is to store it in a version control repository. This is a valuable step that ensures all changes are tracked, and that everyone responsible for automation is working from the same code. However, it also presents an inefficiency – end users must remember to check out (or pull) the latest version of the code and then execute it, and while this isn’t difficult, manual tasks are both the enemy of efficiency and make it easy for errors to occur. Luckily, once again, Ansible supports us by providing tooling to ensure the most efficient approach can be achieved, and a special command called ansible-pull can be used to both retrieve the latest code from a Git repository and execute it, all using one command. This supports not only greater efficiency for end users (and reduces the chance of human error) but also enables automation jobs to be run unattended (for example, using a scheduler such as cron).
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