ansible-doc¶
plugin documentation tool
Synopsis¶
usage: ansible-doc [-h] [--version] [-v] [-M MODULE_PATH]
                [--playbook-dir BASEDIR]
                [-t {become,cache,callback,cliconf,connection,httpapi,inventory,lookup,netconf,shell,module,strategy,vars}]
                [-j] [-F | -l | -s | --metadata-dump]
                [plugin [plugin ...]]
Description¶
displays information on modules installed in Ansible libraries. It displays a terse listing of plugins and their short descriptions, provides a printout of their DOCUMENTATION strings, and it can create a short “snippet” which can be pasted into a playbook.
Common Options¶
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--metadata-dump¶
- For internal testing only Dump json metadata for all plugins. 
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--playbook-dir<BASEDIR>¶
- Since this tool does not use playbooks, use this as a substitute playbook directory.This sets the relative path for many features including roles/ group_vars/ etc. 
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--version¶
- show program’s version number, config file location, configured module search path, module location, executable location and exit 
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-F,--list_files¶
- Show plugin names and their source files without summaries (implies –list) 
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-M,--module-path¶
- prepend colon-separated path(s) to module library (default=~/.ansible/plugins/modules:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules) 
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-h,--help¶
- show this help message and exit 
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-j,--json¶
- Change output into json format. 
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-l,--list¶
- List available plugins 
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-s,--snippet¶
- Show playbook snippet for specified plugin(s) 
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-t<TYPE>,--type<TYPE>¶
- Choose which plugin type (defaults to “module”). Available plugin types are : (‘become’, ‘cache’, ‘callback’, ‘cliconf’, ‘connection’, ‘httpapi’, ‘inventory’, ‘lookup’, ‘netconf’, ‘shell’, ‘module’, ‘strategy’, ‘vars’) 
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-v,--verbose¶
- verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable connection debugging) 
Environment¶
The following environment variables may be specified.
ANSIBLE_CONFIG – Override the default ansible config file
Many more are available for most options in ansible.cfg
Files¶
/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg – Config file, used if present
~/.ansible.cfg – User config file, overrides the default config if present
