Ansible Ad-hoc commands

Ad-hoc commands in Ansible allow you to execute simple tasks at the command line against one or all of your hosts.

Syntax:-

ansible <hosts> [-m <module_name>] -a <"arguments"> -u <username> [--become]

The list of all modules here:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_all_modules.html

The ping module: Try to connect to host, verify a usable python and return pong on success

root@:/etc/ansible# ansible all -m ping 
ip address | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false, 
    "ping": "pong"
}

root@:/etc/ansible#ansible all -i ./hosts -m ping
root@:/etc/ansible#ansible webservers -m ping

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