When encountering the "destination path already exists" error in Ansible while attempting to clone a Git repository, you have a few options to resolve the issue.

If you encounter the 'zsh command not found ansible' error after installing Ansible with pip, it typically indicates that the executable path for Ansible is not properly set in your shell's configuration file (such as ~ / . zshrc for Zsh).

To clone both public and private Git repositories with Ansible, you can use the git module along with the appropriate SSH key configuration.

Using SSH keys with Ansible for secure server management is a common practice. Ansible allows you to automate server management tasks and configure multiple servers simultaneously, and using SSH keys adds an extra layer of security by eliminating the need to use passwords for authentication.

If you need to use password-based authentication in order to connect to the nodes, you need to append the option ansible_become_pass to your Ansible command.

However, in some cases, you may want to disable this check, such as when you are running Ansible playbooks against a large number of servers with changing SSH keys.

To run a command on an Ansible host, you can use the command module in an Ansible playbook. Lets see how to runs the hostname command on a remote host: