Ansible Ad-Hoc command — ansible command

How to use the ping module, execute a command and retrieve the Ansible Facts from a target node via the ansible command line.

What does the ansible command?

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ansible command

• Included in Ansible installation
• command line
• Ansible ad-hoc

The `ansible` command is probably the first helpful command to learn when you start your journey with Ansible.
It is included in every Ansible installation for the most modern operating system.
It relies on Python language and some libraries such as Jinja2, YAML, WinRM, etc.
It is a command line tool so interact with that using your terminal.
Using the `ansible` command, you could perform some operation to your target node(s), for example, executing single modules or retrieving system information (AKA Ansible Facts).
Each command in the Ansible jargon is called a module. Each module has its own parameter for the execution that you could read in the documentation…