ANSIBLE.FIREBALL(3)

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.
# This example playbook has two plays: the first launches 'fireball' mode on all hosts via SSH, and
# the second actually starts using it for subsequent management over the fireball connection
- hosts: devservers
  gather_facts: false
  connection: ssh
  sudo: yes
  tasks:
      - action: fireball
- hosts: devservers
  connection: fireball
  tasks:
      - command: /usr/bin/anything

AUTHOR
Michael DeHaan

SEE ALSO
ansible(1), http://ansible.github.com/modules.html#fireball