Ansible

ansible-pull

ansible-pull comes with ansible installation. No additional installation is required.

ansible-pull allows machine's to 'pull' ansible-playbooks from a git server & then run them locally.

No need to maintain a central server. So, practically no single point of failure if GitHub is used

In a general ansible scenario,

normal ansible scenario

Here, ansible server centrally manages 4 machines. If one of the machine is unreachable for some reasons, ansible throws an error. But, what if you want your machine to be offline for a certain period of time? And only want them to run ansible-playbook in your specified time or time gaps?

Here comes ansible-pull

typical ansible-pull scenario

Machines pull ansible-playbook from git server and run them locally, You can create cron jobs for specified users to have better control over ansible.

I have a project on managing workstations with ansible-pull, do check it out

Links

• Get a variable with host username
• Getting started with Ansible, LearnLinuxTV - Easy tutorial series
• Desktop config with Ansible, LearnLinuxTV - Problem to my solution
• substring in when condition
• Edit current user's shell with Ansible

Official Doc

• Playbook variables
• Git
• Include task module
• file module
• lookup

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