Package and Services

  1. To ensure that a package is installed, but doesn’t get updated 

$ ansible webservers -m apt -a "name=acme state=present"

  1. To ensure that a package is installed to a specific version

$ ansible webservers -m apt -a "name=acme-1.5 state=present"

  1. To ensure that a package at the latest version 

$ ansible webservers -m apt -a "name=acme state=latest"

  1. To ensure that a package is not installed 

$ ansible webservers -m apt -a "name=acme state=absent"

  1. To ensure a service is started on all web servers 

$ ansible webservers -m service -a "name=httpd state=started"

  1. To restart a service on all web servers 

$ ansible webservers -m service -a "name=httpd state=restarted"

  1. To ensure a service is stopped 

$ ansible webservers -m service -a "name=httpd state=stopped"

  1. GitRep:https://foo.example.org/repo.git to Destination:/src/myapp 

$ ansible webservers -m git -a "repo=https://foo.example.org/repo.git dest=/src/myapp version=HEAD"
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