If you reaaly want to see the ctual scripts ansible is running use the ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 to prevent ansible from deleting remote files.
tl;dr
Ansible is the new kid in the Configuration Management / Application Deployment / Continuous Delivery field. Its much easier to learn than puppet/chef and it using yaml for describing playbooks.
Sometimes yo run into trouble when using ansible and want to get more detailed output for debugging the issue. Of course there is the -v option which can be even more verbose with -vvv.
How ansible works
Ansible is well known for its unique feature of: no agent needed. Actually it does need something on the orchestrated node, namely pytho. But its true that in most modern *nix its already provided.
So How does ansible works behinde the sceenes:
- you desribe your playbook in a YAML file
- ansible generates a python script
- copies it to the target node via ssh
- runs the python script
- collects the output/return codes
- deletes all the temporary scriptes/files from the remote host.
If you want to avoid the last step you can use the mentioned environment variable as:
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