Need offline documentation for Ansible

[Ompragash]

SUMMARY

Need offline documentation for Ansible.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

ANSIBLE VERSION

Ansible >= 2

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[gundalow]

@Ompragash You can do make webdocs in the root of the Ansible checkout to generate this.

[gundalow]

Hi,
I've spoken to some other people to get more info.

We used to create an ansible-docs RPM, though this wasn't ever made available upstream. For various technical and non-technical reasons this has been deprecated.

If you need offline docs, you can build them by doing make webdocs and browsing to docs/docsite/_build/html/ which is how docs.ansible.com/ansible/$VERSION is built.

Therefore I believe this issue can be closed

[gundalow]

Also, in case you were not aware you have man pages for the command line tools

As well as ansible-doc for modules and plugins, see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-doc.html

[gecube]

I would like to ask open this issue again, because there is demand in offline documentation about ansible main syntax (like loops, variables, best practices of playbook writing etc.). I did not find any ready rpm/deb or python package realizing this idea. Of course, one can make dump of https://docs.ansible.com/, targz'd it and take the USB flash drive with it's copy, but it does not look like production-ready solution