Ansible: Configuration

This page will show how to configure Ansible.

Config File

You can find more information in their documentation, but for a short summary the ansible.cfg configuration file can be located in the current directory, /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg, ~/.ansible.cfg or instructed with the environment variable ANSIBLE_CONFIG, see this for more instructions.

For this demonstration I will have in under my current working directory saved as ansible.cfg

This is what I usually store:

# https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/examples/ansible.cfg
[defaults]
inventory = inventory.ini
deprecation_warnings=False

Inventory

The inventory file is what is used to inform ansible where to reach your hosts, as ansible.cfg points to a file called inventory.ini in my current directory, the contents look lke this:

local]
my.laptop  ansible_connection=local

[webservers]
10.0.2.10  ansible_host=10.0.2.10 
10.0.2.11  ansible_host=10.0.2.11

[local:vars]
deprecation_warnings = False

[webservers:vars]
ansible_connection=ssh
ansible_user=ubuntu
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/ansible

To ensure connectivity:

ansible all -m ping