ansible.cfg

19 Ansible tutorials tagged “ansible.cfg”. Working examples covering automation, configuration management, and DevOps workflows.

Ansible cfg — Configuration File Guide

playbooks · 5

Configure Ansible behavior with ansible.cfg. Connection settings, privilege escalation, performance tuning, SSH options, and project-level configuration.

beginner

Speed Up Ansible Playbooks — 10 Performance Tips

playbooks · 7

Make Ansible playbooks faster with pipelining, mitogen, async tasks, fact caching, free strategy, and SSH multiplexing. Benchmarks and examples.

Advanced

Mastering Ansible Config: Essential Commands and Actions

playbooks · 5

Discover how to use ansible-config commands to manage Ansible configurations. List, dump, view, and initialize settings efficiently with step-by-step.

Advanced

Ansible COLLECTIONS_PATH — Configure

playbooks · 3

Learn how to configure Ansible collections paths — set ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS environment variable or collections_paths in ansible.cfg. Fix 'collection.

Beginner

Ansible.cfg & OpenSSH SCP Deprecation

playbooks · 6

Learn how to configure ansible.cfg SSH settings for OpenSSH 9.0+ where SCP is deprecated. Complete guide to ssh_connection options, SFTP migration.

Beginner

Configure Ansible Dynamic Inventory for VMware in Simple Steps

playbooks · 2

Discover how to configure Ansible Dynamic Inventory for VMware to automate and manage virtual machines efficiently. Step-by-step guide with Playbook.

Beginner

Using Ansible Tree Callback: Save Host Events to Files Easily

playbooks · 3

Discover how to use the Ansible Tree callback to save host events to JSON files. Enhance your logging and auditing with this powerful feature introduced.

Beginner

Understanding Ansible Builtin vs Legacy Collections: Key Differences

playbooks · 5

Explore the essential differences between Ansible's ansible.builtin and ansible.legacy collections. Understand how each affects your playbooks with.

Advanced

Ansible: Fix 'Failed to Import botocore or boto3' for AWS

playbooks · 4

Learn how to troubleshoot and fix the "Failed to import the required Python library (botocore or boto3)" error in Ansible for AWS with a live Playbook.

Beginner

Maximize Ansible Efficiency with Callback Plugins for Resource Monitoring

playbooks · 4

Learn how to use Ansible callback plugins like cgroup_memory_Conclusion and cgroup_perf_recap to monitor resource consumption and optimize performance.

Beginner

Creating a Custom Ansible Lookup Plugin in Python for Reading a File

playbooks · 7

Create a custom Ansible lookup plugin in Python to extend capabilities for reading file contents on the Ansible controller, enhancing file retrieval.

Beginner

Creating a Custom Ansible Lookup Plugin in Python for retrieving API token

playbooks · 6

Learn how to create an Ansible lookup plugin to fetch API tokens, with a complete example of the token.py plugin code and step-by-step explanations.

Beginner

Customizing Ansible: Ansible Module Creation

playbooks · 5

Learn how to create custom Ansible modules in Python, utilizing Ansible Module Utils for efficient development. Follow best practices and explore an.

Advanced

Executing Custom Lookup Plugins in the Ansible Automation Platform

playbooks · 4

How to execute two custom Ansible Lookup Plugins to interact with API and read the contents of files in the local Ansible Controller.

Beginner

Ansible Ignore SSH Host Key Checking

playbooks · 3

How to avoid the SSH Host Key checking at the beginning of every Ansible execution in our laboratory, CI/CD pipeline, or cloud computing provider.

Beginner

Improve Playbook Debugging Using Ansible Lint

playbooks · 4

Explore how Ansible lint, a crucial command-line tool, improves Ansible automation by checking code quality, reducing errors, and enhancing playbook.

Beginner

Output Ansible Playbooks as YAML with Callback Plugin

playbooks · 3

Learn how to use Ansible ping module to test connections and customize output with callback plugins, demonstrated with a detailed playbook.

Advanced

Ansible Callback Plugins — Profiling

playbooks · 6

Use Ansible callback plugins to profile task execution time, identify slow tasks, and customize output. Configure timer, profile_tasks, and profile_roles.

Beginner

Ansible.cfg Configuration — Guide

playbooks · 4

Configure ansible.cfg for your environment. Settings for SSH, inventory, roles_path, callback plugins, and performance tuning with examples.

Advanced