Executing Ansible

We have so far seen the installation of Ansible, listed the hosts in the inventory, and set up our Ansible playbook; now, we can run Ansible to configure our VMs.

For this, we will run the Ansible tool with the ansible-playbook command, like this:

ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml

The basic options of this command are as follows:

• The -i argument with the inventory file path
• The path of the playbook file

The following is the execution of this command:

The execution of this command applies the playbook to the hosts in the inventory in several steps:

1. Gathering facts: Ansible checks that the hosts are reachable.
2. The tasks' playbook is executed on hosts.
3. PLAY Recap: This is the status of the changes that were executed on each host; the value of this status can be as follows:

ok	This is the number of playbook tasks that have been correctly...