Without an agent on target host, Ansible is able to perform tasks like for example: adding a user(`-m user`).
[Here](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_all_modules.html) are the list of all modules To understand this, I read this [article](https://www.ansible.com/overview/how-ansible-works), which says: "Ansible works by connecting to your nodes and pushing out **small programs**, called "Ansible modules" to them. These programs are written to be resource models of the desired state of the system." -------------------------- My understanding is, `user` module(say) is python module located in control server and this module is serialized on wire to target host, after running `ansible` command with `-m user` option. ------------------------------------ 1) Does `ansible` serialize these **small programs**(source code) via ssh to target device? something like `ssh -t user@host 'sh' < path_to_ansible_module_source_code` 2) target device can be a host or network router. Is Python required on target device? to execute these ansible modules serialized from control server to target host.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/fc940fbc-5cea-4337-a4dc-ef0bb938536f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
