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ANSIBLE-DOC(1)		System administration commands		ANSIBLE-DOC(1)

NAME

ansible-doc - plugin documentation tool

SYNOPSIS

ansible-doc [-l|-s] [options] [-t <plugin type] [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

--version show program's version number and exit -M, --module-path prepend colon-separated path(s) to module library (default=[u'/home/jenkins/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/local/share/ansible/plugins/modules']) -a, --all For internal testing only Show documentation for all plugins. -h, --help show this help message and exit -l, --list List available plugins -s, --snippet Show playbook snippet for specified plugin(s) -t TYPE, --type TYPE Choose which plugin type (defaults to "module") -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

/usr/local/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg -- Config file, used if present ~/.ansible.cfg -- User config file, overrides the default config if present

AUTHOR

Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan. See the AUTHORS file for a complete list of contributors.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2017 Red Hat, Inc | Ansible. Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3 License.

SEE ALSO

ansible(1), ansible-config(1), ansible-console(1), ansible-galaxy(1), ansible-inventory(1), ansible-playbook(1), ansible-pull(1), ansible-vault(1) Extensive documentation is available in the documentation site: http://docs.ansible.com. IRC and mailing list info can be found in file CONTRIBUTING.md, available in: https://github.com/ansible/ansible Ansible 2.4.2.0 11/29/2017 ANSIBLE-DOC(1)

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