Ansible

Infrastructure

Run playbooks, check inventory, and automate configuration — Neotask pairs OpenClaw with Ansible for hands-free ops.

What You Can Do

Run Playbooks Conversationally

Tell Neotask to run a specific playbook against a host group, limit execution to a subset of hosts, or add extra variables — all without constructing the ansible-playbook command yourself. It confirms the targets before executing.

Query and Explore Inventory

Ask which hosts belong to a group, which hosts have a specific variable set, or what groups a particular server is in. Neotask queries your static or dynamic inventory and returns structured, readable results.

Generate Ansible Tasks on the Fly

Describe what you need — "install nginx and ensure it starts on boot" — and Neotask writes the Ansible task YAML for you, ready to paste into a playbook or role. It follows best practices like using the service module instead of shell commands.

Check Playbook Syntax and Lint

Paste a playbook or point to a file and ask Neotask to check it for syntax errors, deprecated modules, or ansible-lint violations. Get specific line-by-line feedback before running in production.

Monitor and Audit Runs

Review the output of recent playbook runs, identify which tasks failed and on which hosts, and get a plain-English summary of what changed — without parsing raw Ansible JSON output yourself.

Try Asking

  • "Run the deploy-app playbook against the web-servers group"
  • "Which hosts in the database group have the primary role set to true?"
  • "Generate an Ansible task to create a user named deploy with sudo access"
  • "Lint my site.yml playbook and tell me what needs fixing"
  • "Rerun the failed tasks from the last playbook execution"
  • "What variables are set for the host db-primary-01?"
  • "Run the patching playbook only on hosts tagged env=staging"
  • "Show me what the last run of the nginx playbook changed"

    • Pro Tips

  • Use the --check flag first by asking for a "dry run" — Neotask will add --check automatically when you ask to preview changes.
  • Scope playbooks to specific hosts with "only on host X" in your prompt to avoid unintended changes to the full group.
  • Ask Neotask to explain what a playbook does before running it if you inherited it from someone else — it will read the YAML and summarize.
  • Store sensitive variables in Ansible Vault and ask Neotask to reference them by variable name rather than value so secrets are never exposed in prompts.
  • Combine Ansible runs with notifications: ask Neotask to send a Slack message when the deploy playbook finishes successfully.

    • Works Well With