Can Ansible modules be used from the command line

Question

I have a module that needs to be executed but only for this one time of playbook execution as I'm trying to experiment something. My doubt is, can I execute a module through command line instead of adding it on the playbook?

Answer 1

Yes @Donna, you can execute a module through playbook. You can do something like this:

ansible webservers -m service -a "name=httpd state=started"

ansible webservers -m command -a "/sbin/reboot -t now"

Each module supports taking arguments. Nearly all modules take key=value arguments, space delimited. Some modules take no arguments, and the command/shell modules simply take the string of the command you want to run