# Comprehensive operator list / cheatsheet (needs a lot of work)

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [April 12, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670 "2013-04-12T00:06:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670/1 "2013-04-12T00:06:57Z")

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Nice, +1, this has been on my list for a while, thnx!

Brian Coca

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**Author:** ![Lester\_Wade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@Lester\_Wade](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lester_Wade)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670/2 "2013-04-17T14:50:54Z")

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What’s the best place for something like this? I’d argue its so useful we should get something on the site asap.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670/3 "2013-04-17T18:38:36Z")

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There’s already a glossary page on the doc site, perhaps extend that with a section or so?

I think it could also use some crosslinks to the rest of the documentation if folks would like to try to add them.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670/4 "2013-04-17T18:39:15Z")

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It should also probably have a table/column format where we can add in when versions were added/or deprecated in favor of newer versions.

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**Author:** ![Gilles\_Cornu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@Gilles\_Cornu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gilles_Cornu)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670/5 "2013-06-20T08:36:02Z")

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I’d like to reactivate this thread, since I would really enjoy having kind of handy concise cheat sheet… For instance, I’m now looking for all available facts and I have to use this template-dump trick to know available variables:

HOSTVARS (ANSIBLE GATHERED, group\_vars, host\_vars) :

{{ hostvars[‘wip-box’] | to\_yaml }}

PLAYBOOK VARS:

{{ vars | to\_yaml }}

Michael, would you accept an initial pull request to add a “cheat sheet” to official documentation ?

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**Author:** ![jpmens1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jpmens1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens1)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670/6 "2013-06-20T10:01:39Z")

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> Michael, would you accept an initial pull request to add a "cheat sheet" to  
> official documentation ?

Of course he would [\*], if you make it really, really good! 😉

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-JP

[\*] Well, I'm hoping he would.

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**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670/7 "2013-06-20T10:09:56Z")

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FYI possibly related to [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3151](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3151)

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/comprehensive-operator-list-cheatsheet-needs-a-lot-of-work/12670/8 "2013-06-20T15:57:57Z")

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As long as it’s part of the project source and easy to make patches to, sure.