README
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cli
CLI binaries: ansible-playbook, ansible, ansible-inventory, ansible-vault, ansible-galaxy, ansible-pull, ansible-doc, ansible-config, ansible-console.
Part of go-ansible — a pure-Go (CGO=0), functional-parity port of Ansible.
Docker / OCI image
Every tagged release publishes a multi-arch image bundling all eight
binaries, FROM scratch — no libc, no interpreter, nothing but the
static binaries themselves (real Ansible cannot do this: it needs
Python plus several pip-installed packages just to be the controller;
see BENCHMARKS.md
for the measured comparison).
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/pb" ghcr.io/go-ansible/cli \
-i /pb/inventory.yml /pb/site.yml
The entrypoint is ansible-playbook; run any other binary with
--entrypoint:
docker run --rm --entrypoint ansible-doc ghcr.io/go-ansible/cli setup
Published for linux/amd64, linux/arm64, linux/riscv64,
linux/ppc64le, and linux/s390x. linux/loong64 is not included —
it isn't a platform docker buildx recognizes without additional
QEMU/binfmt setup this project's CI doesn't do, unlike the Go test
matrix elsewhere in this org, which does cover it directly via
qemu-user-static.
Known limitation: command/shell tasks against a local
connection need /bin/sh, which doesn't exist in a scratch image —
debug/copy/template/set_fact and similar work fine. A playbook
targeting a real remote host over SSH is unaffected either way, since
the shell requirement is the target's, not this image's.
Directories
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cmd
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ansible
command
Command ansible runs a single module against a pattern of inventory hosts (Ansible's "ad-hoc" mode).
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Command ansible runs a single module against a pattern of inventory hosts (Ansible's "ad-hoc" mode). |
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ansible-config
command
Command ansible-config shows go-ansible's configuration.
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Command ansible-config shows go-ansible's configuration. |
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ansible-console
command
Command ansible-console is an interactive REPL for running ad-hoc modules against a live-changeable host pattern — the interactive counterpart to ansible's one-shot ad-hoc mode.
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Command ansible-console is an interactive REPL for running ad-hoc modules against a live-changeable host pattern — the interactive counterpart to ansible's one-shot ad-hoc mode. |
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ansible-doc
command
Command ansible-doc prints documentation for go-ansible's modules.
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Command ansible-doc prints documentation for go-ansible's modules. |
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ansible-galaxy
command
Command ansible-galaxy installs roles from a requirements file.
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Command ansible-galaxy installs roles from a requirements file. |
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ansible-inventory
command
Command ansible-inventory shows the inventory as this port parsed it, in real ansible-inventory's own shapes: the --list JSON dump, the --host variable dump, and the --graph tree.
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Command ansible-inventory shows the inventory as this port parsed it, in real ansible-inventory's own shapes: the --list JSON dump, the --host variable dump, and the --graph tree. |
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ansible-playbook
command
Command ansible-playbook runs a playbook against an inventory.
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Command ansible-playbook runs a playbook against an inventory. |
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ansible-pull
command
Command ansible-pull clones (or updates) a git repository and runs a playbook from it against this machine — the pull-mode counterpart to ansible-playbook's push mode, for a target that fetches and applies its own configuration instead of being reached over SSH.
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Command ansible-pull clones (or updates) a git repository and runs a playbook from it against this machine — the pull-mode counterpart to ansible-playbook's push mode, for a target that fetches and applies its own configuration instead of being reached over SSH. |
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ansible-vault
command
Command ansible-vault encrypts/decrypts/views files in Ansible's Vault 1.1 format.
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Command ansible-vault encrypts/decrypts/views files in Ansible's Vault 1.1 format. |
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internal
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adhoc
Package adhoc is the ad-hoc single-module-against-a-host-pattern execution logic shared by cmd/ansible and cmd/ansible-console — the same "connect, run one module on every matched host, print a host | STATUS => json line as each finishes" flow both binaries need, factored out once instead of copied.
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Package adhoc is the ad-hoc single-module-against-a-host-pattern execution logic shared by cmd/ansible and cmd/ansible-console — the same "connect, run one module on every matched host, print a host | STATUS => json line as each finishes" flow both binaries need, factored out once instead of copied. |
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extravars
Package extravars parses Ansible's `-e`/`--extra-vars` command-line argument: a `key=value` pair, a raw JSON/YAML object, or `@file` to load one from disk (JSON or YAML, by extension).
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Package extravars parses Ansible's `-e`/`--extra-vars` command-line argument: a `key=value` pair, a raw JSON/YAML object, or `@file` to load one from disk (JSON or YAML, by extension). |
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invload
Package invload loads the inventory the way real Ansible's CLI does: a source it cannot use is a WARNING and the run continues with only the implicit localhost, rather than a fatal error.
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Package invload loads the inventory the way real Ansible's CLI does: a source it cannot use is a WARNING and the run continues with only the implicit localhost, rather than a fatal error. |
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termcolor
Package termcolor decides whether output should carry ANSI colour, by real Ansible's rules rather than by a flag alone.
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Package termcolor decides whether output should carry ANSI colour, by real Ansible's rules rather than by a flag alone. |
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vaultpw
Package vaultpw resolves the vault password the way real Ansible's CLI does, so every command that accepts --vault-password-file gets the same behavior from one place rather than each growing its own copy.
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Package vaultpw resolves the vault password the way real Ansible's CLI does, so every command that accepts --vault-password-file gets the same behavior from one place rather than each growing its own copy. |
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version
Package version formats a one-line --version string shared by all four go-ansible CLI binaries.
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Package version formats a one-line --version string shared by all four go-ansible CLI binaries. |