ansible.fireball(3) - Linux man page

Name

fireball - Enable fireball mode on remote node

Description

This modules launches an ephemeral fireball ZeroMQ message bus daemon on the remote node which Ansible can use to communicate with nodes at high speed.

The daemon listens on a configurable port for a configurable amount of time.

Starting a new fireball as a given user terminates any existing user fireballs.

Fireball mode is AES encrypted

Options

minutes

The fireball listener daemon is started on nodes and will stay around for this number of minutes before turning itself off. (default: 30)
port TCP port for ZeroMQ (default: 5099)."

Notes

See the advanced playbooks chapter for more about using fireball mode.

Examples

This example playbook has two plays: the first launches fireball mode on all hosts via SSH, and the second actually starts using fireball node for subsequent management over the fireball interface

- hosts: devservers
      gather_facts: false
      connection: ssh
      sudo: yes
      tasks:
          - action: fireball
- hosts: devservers
      connection: fireball
      tasks:
          - command: /usr/bin/anything

Author

Michael DeHaan