Run command on the Ansible host

Question

Is it possible to run commands on the Ansible host?

My scenario is that I want to take a checkout from a git server that is hosted internally (and isn\'t accessible

Answer 1

You can use delegate_to to run commands on your Ansible host (admin host), from where you are running your Ansible play. For example:

Delete a file if it already exists on Ansible host:

 - name: Remove file if already exists
   file:
    path: /tmp/logfile.log
    state: absent
    mode: "u+rw,g-wx,o-rwx"
   delegate_to: 127.0.0.1

Create a new file on Ansible host :

 - name: Create log file
   file:
    path: /tmp/logfile.log
    state: touch
    mode: "u+rw,g-wx,o-rwx"
   delegate_to: 127.0.0.1