ommands: execute a playbook contained in an ansible-runner directory: ansible-runner run /tmp/private -p playbook.yml ansible-runner start /tmp/private -p playbook.yml ansible-runner stop /tmp/private ansible-runner is-alive /tmp/private directly execute ansible primitives: ansible-runner run . -r role_name --hosts myhost ansible-runner run . -m command -a "ls -l" --hosts myhost `ansible-runner --help` list of optional command line arguments )