Working with command line tools

Most users are familiar with ansible and ansible-playbook, but those are not the only utilities Ansible provides. Below is a complete list of Ansible utilities. Each page contains a description of the utility and a listing of supported parameters.

Note

You should not run most Ansible CLI tools in parallel against the same targets.

ansible
ansible-config
ansible-console
ansible-doc
ansible-galaxy
ansible-inventory
ansible-playbook
ansible-pull
ansible-vault

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https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/command_guide/command_line_tools.html