http://localhost:8080/ansible_101/2.ansible_setup/index.html In this section we will run some initial ansible commands to get setup and explore our environment. First, select the Terminal button in coder to launch a terminal. This will open a shell terminal within your coder container. Drag the corner of the terminal window to make it bigger. You have two choices for viewing/editing files in this lab. You can either edit them from the CLI (vi/vim) or you can use the built-in visual studio code client by selecting the code-server button on the Coder page. All execution of ansible commands will be done through the terminal CLI. Hugo en-us Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:40:21 -0400 http://localhost:8080/ansible_101/2.ansible_setup/inventory/index.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:40:21 -0400 http://localhost:8080/ansible_101/2.ansible_setup/inventory/index.html Review the contents of the inventory file. The inventory file in ansible defines characteristics of the hosts that you are going to run playbooks on. The [lab] definition is a group in our case has two hosts defined in it. You can run playbooks against individual hosts or groups. The [lab:vars] definition is where you set variables for a specific group. In our case we are setting the user and ssh key that will be used to access the host. http://localhost:8080/ansible_101/2.ansible_setup/adhoc/index.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:40:21 -0400 http://localhost:8080/ansible_101/2.ansible_setup/adhoc/index.html Now we are going to run some ad hoc commands against the servers. ansible lab -a "df -h" Next run an ad hoc command against one of the individual servers. ansible ${CODER_USER}-vm1 -a "free -m" Running individual commands against hosts is great, but in the next section we are going to use the ansible-playbook command to run more complex configuration tasks against hosts.