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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. 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.
