# Newbie Need Pull Based Approach But..

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-need-pull-based-approach-but/25399>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 3, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-need-pull-based-approach-but/25399 "2017-09-03T03:42:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![zeldal66666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@zeldal66666](https://forum.ansible.com/u/zeldal66666)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-need-pull-based-approach-but/25399/1 "2017-09-03T03:42:23Z")

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Hello,

I am a newbie linux administrator. I am researching CM tools. I really liked ansiable but my clients are user machines and will be offline most of times. I also need provisioning my cloned machines from golden image, so i need some agent based pull approach. I read about ansible-pull (also offical docs). It sounds good but why do i copy reposity to client (and even inventory “name: Copy ansible inventory file to client” in script from ansiable\_pull.yml). My idea is just to cron to make a “request”, after that, all role or playbooks related that host should be auto “pushed” from server to client. Same is true for provisioning, i can manually add (or automate outside) my host to my inventory after that when my init script runs on client just requests “provision\_me” playbook.

Could you clearify my mind or suggest ideas based on my needs?

Best regards,  
Zelda