Ansible ad hoc commands are one-liners designed to achieve a particular task they are like quick snippets and your compact Swiss army knife when you want to do a quick task across multiple machines.

To put simply, Ansible ad hoc commands are one-liner Linux shell commands and playbooks are like a shell script, a collective of many commands with logic.

Ansible ad hoc commands are handy when you want to perform a quick task.

Task-01

• write an ansible ad hoc ping command to ping multiple servers from the inventory file

    #before that either you cd to hosts folder or add full path to the command
    ansible -i /home/ubuntu/hosts -m ping --private-key=~/.ssh/ansible_key
  

  

    ansible all -a "free -h" -i hosts --private-key=~/.shh/ansible_key
  

  

  the above command will show you the disk space utilized in node servers.

• Write an ansible ad hoc command to check uptime.

    ansible servers -a "uptime" hosts --private-key=~/.ssh/ansible_key
  

  

  The above command will show you the time since the server is running the tasks.

  happy Learning!!💕