As of Ansible 2.1 ansible-shell is part of the official ansible release: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/cli/console.py
Interactive shell for Ansible with built-in tab completion for all the modules.
This version works with 1.x version of ansible.
For the latest release version:
$ pip install ansible-shell
For the latest development version:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/dominis/ansible-shell.git#egg=ansible-shell
You can upgrade an existing installation by specifying an --upgrade option
with the same command for whichever method you used above.
If you wish to hack on ansible-shell, you can install with pip's "editable"
mode -- the ansible-shell command available on your system will be linked to
your working copy of the code:
$ git clone https://github.com/dominis/ansible-shell.git
$ pip install -e ./ansible-shell
See the pip documentation if you need to learn more about pip.
cd
become
forks
list
list groups
serial
! - force shell module instead of the ansible module of the same name (!yum update -y)
[root@aaa ~]# ansible-shell --one-line
Welcome to the ansible-shell.
Type help or ? to list commands.
ansible# /> cd app-pool
ansible# /app-pool (12)> list
app01.bfc.kinja.com
app02.bfc.kinja.com
app03.bfc.kinja.com
app04.bfc.kinja.com
app05.bfc.kinja.com
app06.bfc.kinja.com
app07.bfc.kinja.com
app08.bfc.kinja.com
app09.bfc.kinja.com
app10.bfc.kinja.com
app11.bfc.kinja.com
app12.bfc.kinja.com
ansible# /app-pool (12)> date
UP ***********
app12.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:20 EDT 2013
app04.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:19 EDT 2013
app07.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:19 EDT 2013
app06.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:19 EDT 2013
app08.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:20 EDT 2013
app10.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:20 EDT 2013
app11.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:20 EDT 2013
app09.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:20 EDT 2013
app05.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:19 EDT 2013
app01.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:19 EDT 2013
app03.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:19 EDT 2013
app02.bfc.kinja.com >>> Fri May 24 12:01:19 EDT 2013
FAILED *******
DOWN *********
ansible# /app-pool (12)> <TAB>
Display all 100 possibilities? (y or n)
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add_host cloudformation facter help mail opkg rabbitmq_plugin set_fact wait_for
apt command fail hg mongodb_user osx_say rabbitmq_user setup yum
apt_key copy fetch hipchat mount pacman rabbitmq_vhost shell zfs
apt_repository cron file homebrew mqtt pause raw slurp
assemble debug filesystem ini_file mysql_db ping rax subversion
async_status django_manage fireball irc mysql_user pip rhn_channel supervisorctl
async_wrapper easy_install flowdock jabber nagios pkgin riak svr4pkg
authorized_key ec2 gem lineinfile netscaler pkgng s3 sysctl
bigip_pool ec2_elb get_url list newrelic_deployment postgresql_db script template
bzr ec2_facts git lvg npm postgresql_privs seboolean uri
campfire ec2_vol group lvol ohai postgresql_user selinux user
ansible# /app-pool (12)> netscaler <TAB>
action name nsc_host nsc_protocol password type user
ansible# /app-pool (12)> netscaler nsc_