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General Administration
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Running Kayobe Playbooks on Demand
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In some situations it may be necessary to run an individual Kayobe playbook.
Playbooks are stored in ``<kayobe repo>/ansible/*.yml``.  To run an arbitrary
Kayobe playbook::

    (kayobe) $ kayobe playbook run <playbook> [<playbook>]

Running Kolla-ansible Commands
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To execute a kolla-ansible command::

    (kayobe) $ kayobe kolla ansible run <command>

Dumping Kayobe Configuration
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The Ansible configuration space is quite large, and it can be hard to determine
the final values of Ansible variables.  We can use Kayobe's
``configuration dump`` command to view individual variables or the variables
for one or more hosts.  To dump Kayobe configuration for one or more hosts::

    (kayobe) $ kayobe configuration dump

The output is a JSON-formatted object mapping hosts to their hostvars.

We can use the ``--var-name`` argument to inspect a particular variable or the
``--host`` or ``--hosts`` arguments to view a variable or variables for a
specific host or set of hosts.

Checking Network Connectivity
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In complex networking environments it can be useful to be able to automatically
check network connectivity and diagnose networking issues.  To perform some
simple connectivity checks::

    (kayobe) $ kayobe network connectivity check

Note that this will run on the seed, seed hypervisor, and overcloud hosts. If
any of these hosts are not expected to be active (e.g. prior to overcloud
deployment), the set of target hosts may be limited using the ``--limit``
argument.