# Copyright (c) 2017 Ansible Project # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) --- ACCELERATE_CONNECT_TIMEOUT: default: 1.0 description: - This setting controls the timeout for the socket connect call, and should be kept relatively low. The connection to the accelerate_port will be attempted 3 times before Ansible will fall back to ssh or paramiko (depending on your default connection setting) to try and start the accelerate daemon remotely. - Note, this value can be set to less than one second, however it is probably not a good idea to do so unless you’re on a very fast and reliable LAN. If you’re connecting to systems over the internet, it may be necessary to increase this timeout. env: [{name: ACCELERATE_CONNECT_TIMEOUT }] ini: - {key: accelerate_connect_timeout, section: accelerate} type: float deprecated: why: Removing accelerate as a connection method, settings not needed either. version: "2.5" alternatives: ssh and paramiko version_added: "1.4" ACCELERATE_DAEMON_TIMEOUT: default: 30 description: - This setting controls the timeout for the accelerated daemon, as measured in minutes. The default daemon timeout is 30 minutes. - Prior to 1.6, the timeout was hard-coded from the time of the daemon’s launch. - For version 1.6+, the timeout is now based on the last activity to the daemon and is configurable via this option. env: [{name: ACCELERATE_DAEMON_TIMEOUT}] ini: - {key: accelerate_daemon_timeout, section: accelerate} type: integer deprecated: why: Removing accelerate as a connection method, settings not needed either. version: "2.5" alternatives: ssh and paramiko version_added: "1.6" ACCELERATE_KEYS_DIR: default: ~/.fireball.keys description: '' deprecated: why: Removing accelerate as a connection method, settings not needed either. version: "2.5" alternatives: ssh and paramiko env: [{name: ACCELERATE_KEYS_DIR}] ini: - {key: accelerate_keys_dir, section: accelerate} ACCELERATE_KEYS_DIR_PERMS: default: '700' description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ACCELERATE_KEYS_DIR_PERMS}] ini: - {key: accelerate_keys_dir_perms, section: accelerate} deprecated: why: Removing accelerate as a connection method, settings not needed either. version: "2.5" alternatives: ssh and paramiko ACCELERATE_KEYS_FILE_PERMS: default: '600' description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ACCELERATE_KEYS_FILE_PERMS}] ini: - {key: accelerate_keys_file_perms, section: accelerate} deprecated: why: Removing accelerate as a connection method, settings not needed either. version: "2.5" alternatives: ssh and paramiko ACCELERATE_MULTI_KEY: default: False description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ACCELERATE_MULTI_KEY}] ini: - {key: accelerate_multi_key, section: accelerate} type: boolean deprecated: why: Removing accelerate as a connection method, settings not needed either. version: "2.5" alternatives: ssh and paramiko ACCELERATE_PORT: default: 5099 description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ACCELERATE_PORT}] ini: - {key: accelerate_port, section: accelerate} type: integer deprecated: why: Removing accelerate as a connection method, settings not needed either. version: "2.5" alternatives: ssh and paramiko ACCELERATE_TIMEOUT: default: 30 description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ACCELERATE_TIMEOUT}] ini: - {key: accelerate_timeout, section: accelerate} type: integer deprecated: why: Removing accelerate as a connection method, settings not needed either. version: "2.5" alternatives: ssh and paramiko ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES: name: Allow world readable temporary files default: False description: - This makes the temporary files created on the machine to be world readable and will issue a warning instead of failing the task. - It is useful when becoming an unprivileged user. env: [] ini: - {key: allow_world_readable_tmpfiles, section: defaults} type: boolean yaml: {key: defaults.allow_world_readable_tmpfiles} version_added: "2.1" ANSIBLE_COW_SELECTION: name: Cowsay filter selection default: default description: This allows you to chose a specific cowsay stencil for the banners or use 'random' to cycle through them. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COW_SELECTION}] ini: - {key: cow_selection, section: defaults} ANSIBLE_COW_WHITELIST: name: Cowsay filter whitelist default: ['bud-frogs', 'bunny', 'cheese', 'daemon', 'default', 'dragon', 'elephant-in-snake', 'elephant', 'eyes', 'hellokitty', 'kitty', 'luke-koala', 'meow', 'milk', 'moofasa', 'moose', 'ren', 'sheep', 'small', 'stegosaurus', 'stimpy', 'supermilker', 'three-eyes', 'turkey', 'turtle', 'tux', 'udder', 'vader-koala', 'vader', 'www'] description: White list of cowsay templates that are 'safe' to use, set to empty list if you want to enable all installed templates. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COW_WHITELIST}] ini: - {key: cow_whitelist, section: defaults} type: list yaml: {key: display.cowsay_whitelist} ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR: name: Force color output default: False description: This options forces color mode even when running without a TTY or the "nocolor" setting is True. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR}] ini: - {key: force_color, section: defaults} type: boolean yaml: {key: display.force_color} ANSIBLE_NOCOLOR: name: Suppress color output default: False description: This setting allows suppressing colorizing output, which is used to give a better indication of failure and status information. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_NOCOLOR}] ini: - {key: nocolor, section: defaults} type: boolean yaml: {key: display.nocolor} ANSIBLE_NOCOWS: name: Suppress cowsay output default: False description: If you have cowsay installed but want to avoid the 'cows' (why????), use this. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_NOCOWS}] ini: - {key: nocows, section: defaults} type: boolean yaml: {key: display.i_am_no_fun} ANSIBLE_PIPELINING: name: Connection pipelining default: False description: - Pipelining, if supported by the connection plugin, reduces the number of network operations required to execute a module on the remote server, by executing many Ansible modules without actual file transfer. - This can result in a very significant performance improvement when enabled. - However this conflicts with privilege escalation (become). For example, when using “sudo:” operations you must first disable ‘requiretty’ in /etc/sudoers on all managed hosts, which is why it is disabled by default. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PIPELINING}] ini: - {key: pipelining, section: connection} type: boolean yaml: {key: plugins.connection.pipelining} ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS: # TODO: move to ssh plugin default: -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s description: - If set, this will override the Ansible default ssh arguments. - In particular, users may wish to raise the ControlPersist time to encourage performance. A value of 30 minutes may be appropriate. - Be aware that if `-o ControlPath` is set in ssh_args, the control path setting is not used. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS}] ini: - {key: ssh_args, section: ssh_connection} yaml: {key: ssh_connection.ssh_args} ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH: # TODO: move to ssh plugin default: null description: - This is the location to save ssh's ControlPath sockets, it uses ssh's variable substitution. - Since 2.3, if null, ansible will generate a unique hash. Use `%(directory)s` to indicate where to use the control dir path setting. - Before 2.3 it defaulted to `control_path=%(directory)s/ansible-ssh-%%h-%%p-%%r`. - Be aware that this setting is ignored if `-o ControlPath` is set in ssh args. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH}] ini: - {key: control_path, section: ssh_connection} yaml: {key: ssh_connection.control_path} ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH_DIR: # TODO: move to ssh plugin default: ~/.ansible/cp description: - This sets the directory to use for ssh control path if the control path setting is null. - Also, provides the `%(directory)s` variable for the control path setting. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH_DIR}] ini: - {key: control_path_dir, section: ssh_connection} yaml: {key: ssh_connection.control_path_dir} ANSIBLE_SSH_EXECUTABLE: # TODO: move to ssh plugin default: ssh description: - This defines the location of the ssh binary. It defaults to `ssh` which will use the first ssh binary available in $PATH. - This option is usually not required, it might be useful when access to system ssh is restricted, or when using ssh wrappers to connect to remote hosts. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SSH_EXECUTABLE}] ini: - {key: ssh_executable, section: ssh_connection} yaml: {key: ssh_connection.ssh_executable} version_added: "2.2" ANSIBLE_SSH_PIPELINING: # TODO: move to ssh plugin default: False description: - Pipelining reduces the number of SSH operations required to execute a module on the remote server, by executing many Ansible modules without actual file transfer. - This can result in a very significant performance improvement when enabled. - However this conflicts with privilege escalation (become). For example, when using “sudo:” operations you must first disable ‘requiretty’ in /etc/sudoers on all managed hosts, which is why it is disabled by default. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SSH_PIPELINING}] ini: - {key: pipelining, section: ssh_connection} type: boolean yaml: {key: ssh_connection.pipelining} ANSIBLE_SSH_RETRIES: # TODO: move to ssh plugin default: 0 description: Number of attempts to establish a connection before we give up and report the host as 'UNREACHABLE' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SSH_RETRIES}] ini: - {key: retries, section: ssh_connection} type: integer yaml: {key: ssh_connection.retries} ANY_ERRORS_FATAL: name: Make Task failures fatal default: False description: Sets the default value for the any_errors_fatal keyword, if True, Task failures will be considered fatal errors. env: - name: ANSIBLE_ANY_ERRORS_FATAL ini: - section: defaults key: any_errors_fatal type: boolean yaml: {key: errors.any_task_errors_fatal} version_added: "2.4" BECOME_ALLOW_SAME_USER: name: Allow becomming the same user default: False description: This setting controls if become is skipped when remote user and become user are the same. I.E root sudo to root. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_ALLOW_SAME_USER}] ini: - {key: become_allow_same_user, section: privilege_escalation} type: boolean yaml: {key: privilege_escalation.become_allow_same_user} CACHE_PLUGIN: name: Persistent Cache plugin default: memory description: Chooses which cache plugin to use, the default 'memory' is ephimeral. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN}] ini: - {key: fact_caching, section: defaults} yaml: {key: facts.cache.plugin} CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION: name: Cache Plugin URI default: ~ description: Defines connection or path information for the cache plugin env: [{name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION}] ini: - {key: fact_caching_connection, section: defaults} yaml: {key: facts.cache.uri} CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX: name: Cache Plugin table prefix default: ansible_facts description: Prefix to use for cache plugin files/tables env: [{name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX}] ini: - {key: fact_caching_prefix, section: defaults} yaml: {key: facts.cache.prefix} CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT: name: Cache Plugin expiration timeout default: 86400 description: Expiration timeout for the cache plugin data env: [{name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT}] ini: - {key: fact_caching_timeout, section: defaults} type: integer yaml: {key: facts.cache.timeout} COLOR_CHANGED: name: Color for 'changed' task status default: yellow description: Defines the color to use on 'Changed' task status env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_CHANGED}] ini: - {key: changed, section: colors} yaml: {key: display.colors.changed} COLOR_DEBUG: name: Color for debug statements default: dark gray description: Defines the color to use when emitting debug messages env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_DEBUG}] ini: - {key: debug, section: colors} yaml: {key: display.colors.debug} COLOR_DEPRECATE: name: Color for deprecation messages default: purple description: Defines the color to use when emitting deprecation messages env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_DEPRECATE}] ini: - {key: deprecate, section: colors} yaml: {key: display.colors.deprecate} COLOR_DIFF_ADD: name: Color for diff added display default: green description: Defines the color to use when showing added lines in diffs env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_DIFF_ADD}] ini: - {key: diff_add, section: colors} yaml: {key: display.colors.diff.add} COLOR_DIFF_LINES: name: Color for diff lines display default: cyan description: Defines the color to use when showing diffs env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_DIFF_LINES}] ini: - {key: diff_lines, section: colors} COLOR_DIFF_REMOVE: name: Color for diff removed display default: red description: Defines the color to use when showing removed lines in diffs env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_DIFF_REMOVE}] ini: - {key: diff_remove, section: colors} COLOR_ERROR: name: Color for error messages default: red description: Defines the color to use when emitting error messages env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_ERROR}] ini: - {key: error, section: colors} yaml: {key: colors.error} COLOR_HIGHLIGHT: name: Color for highlighting default: white description: Color used for highlights env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT}] ini: - {key: highlight, section: colors} COLOR_OK: name: Color for 'ok' task status default: green description: Defines the color to use when showing 'OK' task status env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_OK}] ini: - {key: ok, section: colors} COLOR_SKIP: name: Color for 'skip' task status default: cyan description: Defines the color to use when showing 'Skipped' task status env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_SKIP}] ini: - {key: skip, section: colors} COLOR_UNREACHABLE: name: Color for 'unreachable' host state default: bright red description: Defines the color to use on 'Unreachable' status env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_UNREACHABLE}] ini: - {key: unreachable, section: colors} COLOR_VERBOSE: name: Color for verbose messages default: blue description: Defines the color to use when emitting verbose messages. i.e those that show with '-v's. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_VERBOSE}] ini: - {key: verbose, section: colors} COLOR_WARN: name: Color for warning messages default: bright purple description: Defines the color to use when emitting warning messages env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COLOR_WARN}] ini: - {key: warn, section: colors} COMMAND_WARNINGS: name: Command module warnings default: True description: - By default Ansible will issue a warning when the shell or command module is used and the command appears to be similar to an existing Ansible module. - These warnings can be silenced by adjusting this setting to False. You can also control this at the task level with the module optoin ``warn``. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_COMMAND_WARNINGS}] ini: - {key: command_warnings, section: defaults} type: boolean version_added: "1.8" DEFAULT_ACTION_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Action plugins path default: ~/.ansible/plugins/action:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/action description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Action Plugins. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_ACTION_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: action_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec yaml: {key: plugins.action.path} DEFAULT_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LOOKUPS: name: Allow unsafe lookups default: False description: - When enabled, this option allows lookup plugins (whether used in variables as ``{{lookup(‘foo’)}}`` or as a loop as with_foo) to return data that is not marked “unsafe”. - By default, such data is marked as unsafe to prevent the templating engine from evaluating any jinja2 templating language, as this could represent a security risk. This option is provided to allow for backwards-compatibility, however users should first consider adding allow_unsafe=True to any lookups which may be expected to contain data which may be run through the templating engine late env: [] ini: - {key: allow_unsafe_lookups, section: defaults} type: boolean version_added: "2.2.3" DEFAULT_ASK_PASS: name: Ask for the login password default: False description: - This controls whether an Ansible playbook should prompt for a login password. If using SSH keys for authentication, you probably do not needed to change this setting. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_ASK_PASS}] ini: - {key: ask_pass, section: defaults} type: boolean yaml: {key: defaults.ask_pass} DEFAULT_ASK_SUDO_PASS: name: Ask for the sudo password default: False deprecated: why: In favor of become which is a generic framework version: "2.8" alternatives: become description: - This controls whether an Ansible playbook should prompt for a sudo password. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_ASK_SUDO_PASS}] ini: - {key: ask_sudo_pass, section: defaults} type: boolean DEFAULT_ASK_SU_PASS: name: Ask for the su password default: False deprecated: why: In favor of become which is a generic framework version: "2.8" alternatives: become description: - This controls whether an Ansible playbook should prompt for a su password. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_ASK_SU_PASS}] ini: - {key: ask_su_pass, section: defaults} type: boolean DEFAULT_ASK_VAULT_PASS: name: Ask for the vault password(s) default: False description: - This controls whether an Ansible playbook should prompt for a vault password. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_ASK_VAULT_PASS}] ini: - {key: ask_vault_pass, section: defaults} type: boolean DEFAULT_BECOME: name: Enable privilege escalation (become) default: False description: Toggles the use of privilege escalation, allowing you to 'become' another user after login. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_BECOME}] ini: - {key: become, section: privilege_escalation} type: boolean DEFAULT_BECOME_ASK_PASS: name: Ask for the privelege escalation (become) password default: False description: Toggle to prompt for privilege escalation password. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_ASK_PASS}] ini: - {key: become_ask_pass, section: privilege_escalation} type: boolean DEFAULT_BECOME_METHOD: name: Choose privilege escalation method default: 'sudo' description: Privilege escalation method to use when `become` is enabled. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_METHOD}] ini: - {section: privilege_escalation, key: become_method} DEFAULT_BECOME_EXE: name: Choose 'become' executable default: ~ description: 'executable to use for privilege escalation, otherwise Ansible will depend on PATh' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_EXE}] ini: - {key: become_exe, section: privilege_escalation} DEFAULT_BECOME_FLAGS: name: Set 'become' executable options default: ~ description: Flags to pass to the privilege escalation executable. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_FLAGS}] ini: - {key: become_flags, section: privilege_escalation} DEFAULT_BECOME_USER: # FIXME: should really be blank and make -u passing optional depending on it name: Set the user you 'become' via privlege escalation default: root description: The user your login/remote user 'becomes' when using privilege escalation, most systems will use 'root' when no user is specified. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_BECOME_USER}] ini: - {key: become_user, section: privilege_escalation} yaml: {key: become.user} DEFAULT_CACHE_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Cache Plugins Path default: ~/.ansible/plugins/cache:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/cache description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Cache Plugins. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: cache_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec DEFAULT_CALLABLE_WHITELIST: name: Template 'callable' whitelist default: [] description: Whitelist of callable methods to be made available to template evaluation env: [{name: ANSIBLE_CALLABLE_WHITELIST}] ini: - {key: callable_whitelist, section: defaults} type: list DEFAULT_CALLBACK_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Callback Plugins Path default: ~/.ansible/plugins/callback:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/callback description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Callback Plugins. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: callback_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec yaml: {key: plugins.callback.path} DEFAULT_CALLBACK_WHITELIST: name: Callback Whitelist default: [] description: - List of whitelisted callbacks, not all callbacks need whitelisting, but many of those shipped with Ansible do as we don't want them activated by default. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_WHITELIST}] ini: - {key: callback_whitelist, section: defaults} type: list yaml: {key: plugins.callback.whitelist} DEFAULT_CONNECTION_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Connection Plugins Path default: ~/.ansible/plugins/connection:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/connection description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Connection Plugins. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_CONNECTION_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: connection_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec yaml: {key: plugins.connection.path} DEFAULT_DEBUG: name: Debug mode default: False description: Toggles debug output in Ansible, VERY verbose and can hinder multiprocessing. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_DEBUG}] ini: - {key: debug, section: defaults} type: boolean DEFAULT_EXECUTABLE: name: Target shell executable default: /bin/sh description: - This indicates the command to use to spawn a shell under for Ansible's execution needs on a target. Users may need to change this in rare instances when shell usage is constrained, but in most cases it may be left as is. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_EXECUTABLE}] ini: - {key: executable, section: defaults} DEFAULT_FACT_PATH: name: local fact path default: ~ description: - This option allows you to globally configure a custom path for 'local_facts' for the implied M(setup) task when using fact gathering. - "If not set, it will fallback to the default from the M(setup) module: ``/etc/ansible/facts.d``." - This does **not ** affect user defined tasks that use the M(setup) module. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_FACT_PATH}] ini: - {key: fact_path, section: defaults} type: path yaml: {key: facts.gathering.fact_path} DEFAULT_FILTER_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Jinja2 Filter Plugins Path default: ~/.ansible/plugins/filter:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/filter description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Jinja2 Filter Plugins. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_FILTER_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: filter_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec DEFAULT_FORCE_HANDLERS: name: Force handlers to run after failure default: False description: - This option controls if notified handlers run on a host even if a failure occurs on that host. - When false, the handlers will not run if a failure has occurred on a host. - This can also be set per play or on the command line. See Handlers and Failure for more details. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_FORCE_HANDLERS}] ini: - {key: force_handlers, section: defaults} type: boolean version_added: "1.9.1" DEFAULT_FORKS: name: Number of task forks default: 5 description: Maximum number of forks Ansible will use to execute tasks on target hosts. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_FORKS}] ini: - {key: forks, section: defaults} type: integer DEFAULT_GATHERING: name: Gathering behaviour default: 'implicit' description: - This setting controls the default policy of fact gathering (facts discovered about remote systems). - "When ‘implicit’ (the default), the cache plugin will be ignored and facts will be gathered per play unless ‘gather_facts: False’ is set." - When ‘explicit’ the inverse is true, facts will not be gathered unless directly requested in the play. - The ‘smart’ value means each new host that has no facts discovered will be scanned, but if the same host is addressed in multiple plays it will not be contacted again in the playbook run. - This option can be useful for those wishing to save fact gathering time. Both ‘smart’ and ‘explicit’ will use the cache plugin. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_GATHERING}] ini: - key: gathering section: defaults version_added: "1.6" choices: ['smart', 'explicit', 'implicit'] DEFAULT_GATHER_SUBSET: name: Gather facts subset default: 'all' description: - Set the `gather_subset` option for the M(setup) task in the implicit fact gathering. See the module documentation for specifics. - It does **not** apply to user defined M(setup) tasks. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_GATHER_SUBSET}] ini: - key: gather_subset section: defaults version_added: "2.1" DEFAULT_GATHER_TIMEOUT: name: Gather facts timeout default: 10 description: - Set the timeout in seconds for the implicit fact gathering. - It does **not** apply to user defined M(setup) tasks. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_GATHER_TIMEOUT}] ini: - {key: gather_timeout, section: defaults} type: integer yaml: {key: defaults.gather_timeout} DEFAULT_HANDLER_INCLUDES_STATIC: name: Make handler M(include) static default: False description: - Since 2.0 M(include) can be 'dynamic', this setting (if True) forces that if the include appears in a ``handlers`` section to be 'static'. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_HANDLER_INCLUDES_STATIC}] ini: - {key: handler_includes_static, section: defaults} type: boolean deprecated: why: include itself is deprecated and this setting will not matter in the future version: "2.8" alternatives: none as its already built into the decision between include_tasks and import_tasks DEFAULT_HASH_BEHAVIOUR: name: Hash merge behaviour default: replace type: string choices: [‘replace’, ‘merge’] description: - This setting controls how variables merge in Ansible. By default Ansible will override variables in specific precedence orders, as described in Variables. When a variable of higher precedence wins, it will replace the other value. - Some users prefer that variables that are hashes (aka ‘dictionaries’ in Python terms) are merged. This setting is called ‘merge’. This is not the default behavior and it does not affect variables whose values are scalars (integers, strings) or arrays. We generally recommend not using this setting unless you think you have an absolute need for it, and playbooks in the official examples repos do not use this setting - In version 2.0 a ``combine`` filter was added to allow doing this for a particular variable (described in Filters). env: [{name: ANSIBLE_HASH_BEHAVIOUR}] ini: - {key: hash_behaviour, section: defaults} DEFAULT_HOST_LIST: name: Inventory Source default: /etc/ansible/hosts description: Colon separated list of Ansible inventory sources env: - name: ANSIBLE_HOSTS deprecated: why: The variable is misleading as it can be a list of hosts and/or paths to inventory sources version: "2.8" alternatives: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY - name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY expand_relative_paths: True ini: - key: hostfile section: defaults deprecated: why: The key is misleading as it can also be a list of hosts, a directory or a list of paths version: "2.8" alternatives: inventory - key: inventory section: defaults type: pathlist yaml: {key: defaults.inventory} DEFAULT_INTERNAL_POLL_INTERVAL: name: Internal poll interval default: 0.001 env: [] ini: - {key: internal_poll_interval, section: defaults} type: float version_added: "2.2" description: - This sets the interval (in seconds) of Ansible internal processes polling each other. Lower values improve performance with large playbooks at the expense of extra CPU load. Higher values are more suitable for Ansible usage in automation scenarios, when UI responsiveness is not required but CPU usage might be a concern. - The default corresponds to the value hardcoded in Ansible ≤ 2.1 DEFAULT_INVENTORY_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Inventory Plugins Path default: ~/.ansible/plugins/inventory:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/inventory description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Inventory Plugins. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: inventory_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec DEFAULT_JINJA2_EXTENSIONS: name: Enabled Jinja2 extensions default: [] description: - This is a developer-specific feature that allows enabling additional Jinja2 extensions. - See the Jinja2 documentation for details. If you do not know what these do, you probably don’t need to change this setting :) env: [{name: ANSIBLE_JINJA2_EXTENSIONS}] ini: - {key: jinja2_extensions, section: defaults} DEFAULT_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES: name: Keep remote files default: False description: Enables/disables the cleaning up of the temporary files Ansible used to execute the tasks on the remote. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES}] ini: - {key: keep_remote_files, section: defaults} type: boolean DEFAULT_LIBVIRT_LXC_NOSECLABEL: # TODO: move to plugin name: No security label on Lxc default: False description: - This setting causes libvirt to connect to lxc containers by passing –noseclabel to virsh. This is necessary when running on systems which do not have SELinux. env: [{name: LIBVIRT_LXC_NOSECLABEL}] ini: - {key: libvirt_lxc_noseclabel, section: selinux} type: boolean version_added: "2.1" DEFAULT_LOAD_CALLBACK_PLUGINS: name: Load callbacks for adhoc default: False description: - Controls whether callback plugins are loaded when running /usr/bin/ansible. This may be used to log activity from the command line, send notifications, and so on. Callback plugins are always loaded for ``ansible-playbook``. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_LOAD_CALLBACK_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: bin_ansible_callbacks, section: defaults} type: boolean version_added: "1.8" DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP: name: Controller temporary directory default: ~/.ansible/tmp description: Temporary directory for Ansible to use on the controller. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_LOCAL_TEMP}] ini: - {key: local_tmp, section: defaults} type: tmppath DEFAULT_LOG_PATH: name: Ansible log file path default: '' description: File to which Ansible will log on the controller. When empty logging is disabled. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH}] ini: - {key: log_path, section: defaults} type: path DEFAULT_LOOKUP_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Lookup Plugins Path description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Lookup Plugins. default: ~/.ansible/plugins/lookup:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/lookup env: [{name: ANSIBLE_LOOKUP_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: lookup_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec yaml: {key: defaults.lookup_plugins} DEFAULT_MANAGED_STR: name: Ansible managed default: 'Ansible managed' description: Sets the macro for the 'ansible_managed' variable available for M(template) tasks. env: [] ini: - {key: ansible_managed, section: defaults} yaml: {key: defaults.ansible_managed} DEFAULT_MODULE_ARGS: name: Adhoc default arguments default: '' description: - This sets the default arguments to pass to the ``ansible`` adhoc binary if no ``-a`` is specified. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS}] ini: - {key: module_args, section: defaults} DEFAULT_MODULE_COMPRESSION: name: Python module compression default: ZIP_DEFLATED description: Compression scheme to use when transfering Python modules to the target. env: [] ini: - {key: module_compression, section: defaults} # vars: # - name: ansible_module_compression DEFAULT_MODULE_LANG: name: Target language environment default: eval(os.getenv('LANG', 'en_US.UTF-8')) description: "Language locale setting to use for modules when they execute on the target, if empty it defaults to 'en_US.UTF-8'" env: [{name: ANSIBLE_MODULE_LANG}] ini: - {key: module_lang, section: defaults} # vars: # - name: ansible_module_lang DEFAULT_MODULE_NAME: name: Default adhoc module default: command description: Module to use with the ``ansible`` AdHoc command, if none is specified via ``-m``. env: [] ini: - {key: module_name, section: defaults} DEFAULT_MODULE_PATH: name: Modules Path description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Modules. default: ~/.ansible/plugins/modules:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules env: [{name: ANSIBLE_LIBRARY}] ini: - {key: library, section: defaults} type: pathspec DEFAULT_MODULE_SET_LOCALE: name: Target locale default: False description: Controls if we set locale for modules when executing on the target. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_MODULE_SET_LOCALE}] ini: - {key: module_set_locale, section: defaults} type: boolean # vars: # - name: ansible_module_locale DEFAULT_MODULE_UTILS_PATH: name: Module Utils Path description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Module utils files, which are shared by modules. default: ~/.ansible/plugins/module_utils:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/module_utils env: [{name: ANSIBLE_MODULE_UTILS}] ini: - {key: module_utils, section: defaults} type: pathspec DEFAULT_NO_LOG: name: No log default: False description: Toggle Ansible's display and logging of task details, mainly used to avoid security disclosures. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_NO_LOG}] ini: - {key: no_log, section: defaults} type: boolean DEFAULT_NO_TARGET_SYSLOG: name: No syslog on target default: False description: Toggle Ansbile logging to syslog on the target when it executes tasks. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_NO_TARGET_SYSLOG}] ini: - {key: no_target_syslog, section: defaults} type: boolean yaml: {key: defaults.no_target_syslog} DEFAULT_NULL_REPRESENTATION: name: Represent a null default: ~ description: What templating should return as a 'null' value. When not set it will let Jinja2 decide. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_NULL_REPRESENTATION}] ini: - {key: null_representation, section: defaults} type: none DEFAULT_POLL_INTERVAL: name: Async poll interval default: 15 description: - For asynchronous tasks in Ansible (covered in Asynchronous Actions and Polling), this is how often to check back on the status of those tasks when an explicit poll interval is not supplied. The default is a reasonably moderate 15 seconds which is a tradeoff between checking in frequently and providing a quick turnaround when something may have completed. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_POLL_INTERVAL}] ini: - {key: poll_interval, section: defaults} type: integer DEFAULT_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE: name: Private key file default: ~ description: - Option for connections using a certificate or key file to authenticate, rather than an agent or passwords, you can set the default value here to avoid re-specifying --private-key with every invocation. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE}] ini: - {key: private_key_file, section: defaults} type: path DEFAULT_PRIVATE_ROLE_VARS: name: Private role variables default: False description: '' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PRIVATE_ROLE_VARS}] ini: - {key: private_role_vars, section: defaults} type: boolean yaml: {key: defaults.private_role_vars} DEFAULT_REMOTE_PORT: name: Remote port default: ~ description: Port to use in remote connections, when blank it will use the connection plugin default. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_REMOTE_PORT}] ini: - {key: remote_port, section: defaults} type: integer yaml: {key: defaults.remote_port} DEFAULT_REMOTE_TMP: name: Target temporary directory default: ~/.ansible/tmp description: - Temporary directory to use on targets when executing tasks. - In some cases Ansible may still choose to use a system temporary dir to avoid permission issues. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_REMOTE_TEMP}] ini: - {key: remote_tmp, section: defaults} vars: - name: ansible_remote_tmp DEFAULT_REMOTE_USER: name: Login/Remote User default: description: - Sets the login user for the target machines - When blank it uses the connection plugin's default, normally the user currently executing Ansible. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER}] ini: - {key: remote_user, section: defaults} DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH: name: Roles path default: ~/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Roles. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH}] expand_relative_paths: True ini: - {key: roles_path, section: defaults} type: pathspec yaml: {key: defaults.roles_path} DEFAULT_SCP_IF_SSH: # TODO: move to ssh plugin default: smart description: - "Prefered method to use when transfering files over ssh" - When set to smart, Ansible will try them until one succeeds or they all fail - If set to True, it will force 'scp', if False it will use 'sftp' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SCP_IF_SSH}] ini: - {key: scp_if_ssh, section: ssh_connection} DEFAULT_SELINUX_SPECIAL_FS: name: Problematic file systems default: fuse, nfs, vboxsf, ramfs, 9p description: - "Some filesystems do not support safe operations and/or return inconsistent errors, this setting makes Ansible 'tolerate' those in the list w/o causing fatal errors." - Data corruption may occur and writes are not always verified when a filesystem is in the list. env: [] ini: - {key: special_context_filesystems, section: selinux} type: list DEFAULT_SFTP_BATCH_MODE: # TODO: move to ssh plugin default: True description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SFTP_BATCH_MODE}] ini: - {key: sftp_batch_mode, section: ssh_connection} type: boolean yaml: {key: ssh_connection.sftp_batch_mode} DEFAULT_SQUASH_ACTIONS: name: Squashable actions default: apk, apt, dnf, homebrew, openbsd_pkg, pacman, pkgng, yum, zypper description: - Ansible can optimise actions that call modules that support list parameters when using with_ looping. Instead of calling the module once for each item, the module is called once with the full list. - The default value for this setting is only for certain package managers, but it can be used for any module - Currently, this is only supported for modules that have a name or pkg parameter, and only when the item is the only thing being passed to the parameter. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SQUASH_ACTIONS}] ini: - {key: squash_actions, section: defaults} type: list version_added: "2.0" DEFAULT_SSH_TRANSFER_METHOD: # TODO: move to ssh plugin default: description: 'unused?' # - "Prefered method to use when transfering files over ssh" # - Setting to smart will try them until one succeeds or they all fail #choices: ['sftp', 'scp', 'dd', 'smart'] env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SSH_TRANSFER_METHOD}] ini: - {key: transfer_method, section: ssh_connection} DEFAULT_STDOUT_CALLBACK: name: Main display callback plugin default: default description: - "Set the main callback used to display Ansible output, you can only have one at a time." - You can have many other callbacks, but just one can be in charge of stdout. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK}] ini: - {key: stdout_callback, section: defaults} DEFAULT_STRATEGY: name: Implied strategy default: 'linear' description: Set the default strategy used for plays. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_STRATEGY}] ini: - {key: strategy, section: defaults} version_added: "2.3" DEFAULT_STRATEGY_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Strategy Plugins Path description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Strategy Plugins. default: ~/.ansible/plugins/strategy:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/strategy env: [{name: ANSIBLE_STRATEGY_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: strategy_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec DEFAULT_SU: default: False description: 'Toggle the use of "su" for tasks.' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SU}] ini: - {key: su, section: defaults} type: boolean yaml: {key: defaults.su} DEFAULT_SUDO: default: False deprecated: why: In favor of become which is a generic framework version: "2.8" alternatives: become description: 'Toggle the use of "sudo" for tasks.' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SUDO}] ini: - {key: sudo, section: defaults} type: boolean DEFAULT_SUDO_EXE: name: sudo executable default: sudo deprecated: why: In favor of become which is a generic framework version: "2.8" alternatives: become description: 'specify an "sudo" executable, otherwise it relies on PATH.' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SUDO_EXE}] ini: - {key: sudo_exe, section: defaults} DEFAULT_SUDO_FLAGS: name: sudo flags default: '-H -S -n' deprecated: why: In favor of become which is a generic framework version: "2.8" alternatives: become description: 'Flags to pass to "sudo"' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SUDO_FLAGS}] ini: - {key: sudo_flags, section: defaults} DEFAULT_SUDO_USER: name: sudo user default: deprecated: why: In favor of become which is a generic framework version: "2.8" alternatives: become description: 'User you become when using "sudo", leaving it blank will use the default configured on the target (normally root)' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SUDO_USER}] ini: - {key: sudo_user, section: defaults} DEFAULT_SU_EXE: name: su executable default: su deprecated: why: In favor of become which is a generic framework version: "2.8" alternatives: become description: 'specify an "su" executable, otherwise it relies on PATH.' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SU_EXE}] ini: - {key: su_exe, section: defaults} DEFAULT_SU_FLAGS: name: su flags default: ~ deprecated: why: In favor of become which is a generic framework version: "2.8" alternatives: become description: 'Flags to pass to su' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SU_FLAGS}] ini: - {key: su_flags, section: defaults} DEFAULT_SU_USER: name: su user default: description: 'User you become when using "su", leaving it blank will use the default configured on the target (normally root)' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SU_USER}] ini: - {key: su_user, section: defaults} deprecated: why: In favor of become which is a generic framework version: "2.8" alternatives: become DEFAULT_SYSLOG_FACILITY: name: syslog facility default: LOG_USER description: Syslog facility to use when Ansible logs to the remote target env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SYSLOG_FACILITY}] ini: - {key: syslog_facility, section: defaults} DEFAULT_TASK_INCLUDES_STATIC: name: Task include static default: False description: - The `include` tasks can be static or dynamic, this toggles the default expected behaviour if autodetection fails and it is not explicitly set in task. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_TASK_INCLUDES_STATIC}] ini: - {key: task_includes_static, section: defaults} type: boolean version_added: "2.1" deprecated: why: include itself is deprecated and this setting will not matter in the future version: "2.8" alternatives: None, as its already built into the decision between include_tasks and import_tasks DEFAULT_TEST_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Jinja2 Test Plugins Path description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Jinja2 Test Plugins. default: ~/.ansible/plugins/test:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/test env: [{name: ANSIBLE_TEST_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: test_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec DEFAULT_TIMEOUT: name: Connection timeout default: 10 description: This is the default timeout for connection plugins to use. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT}] ini: - {key: timeout, section: defaults} type: integer DEFAULT_TRANSPORT: name: Connection plugin default: smart description: "Default connection plugin to use, the 'smart' option will toggle between 'ssh' and 'paramiko' depending on controller OS and ssh versions" env: [{name: ANSIBLE_TRANSPORT}] ini: - {key: transport, section: defaults} DEFAULT_UNDEFINED_VAR_BEHAVIOR: name: Jinja2 fail on undefined default: True version_added: "1.3" description: - When True, this causes ansible templating to fail steps that reference variable names that are likely typoed. - Otherwise, any ‘{{ template_expression }}’ that contains undefined variables will be rendered in a template or ansible action line exactly as written. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_ERROR_ON_UNDEFINED_VARS}] ini: - {key: error_on_undefined_vars, section: defaults} type: boolean DEFAULT_VARS_PLUGIN_PATH: name: Vars Plugins Path default: ~/.ansible/plugins/vars:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/vars description: Colon separated paths in which Ansible will search for Vars Plugins. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_VARS_PLUGINS}] ini: - {key: vars_plugins, section: defaults} type: pathspec # TODO: unused? #DEFAULT_VAR_COMPRESSION_LEVEL: # default: 0 # description: 'TODO: write it' # env: [{name: ANSIBLE_VAR_COMPRESSION_LEVEL}] # ini: # - {key: var_compression_level, section: defaults} # type: integer # yaml: {key: defaults.var_compression_level} DEFAULT_VAULT_ID_MATCH: name: Force vault id match default: False description: 'If true, decrypting vaults with a vault id will only try the password from the matching vault-id' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_VAULT_ID_MATCH}] ini: - {key: vault_id_match, section: defaults} yaml: {key: defaults.vault_id_match} DEFAULT_VAULT_IDENTITY: name: Vault id label default: default description: 'The label to use for the default vault id label in cases where a vault id label is not provided' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_VAULT_IDENTITY}] ini: - {key: vault_identity, section: defaults} yaml: {key: defaults.vault_identity} DEFAULT_VAULT_IDENTITY_LIST: name: Default vault ids default: [] description: 'A list of vault-ids to use by default. Equivalent to multiple --vault-id args. Vault-ids are tried in order.' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_VAULT_IDENTITY_LIST}] ini: - {key: vault_identity_list, section: defaults} type: list yaml: {key: defaults.vault_identity_list} DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE: name: Vault password file default: ~ description: 'The vault password file to use. Equivalent to --vault-password-file or --vault-id' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE}] ini: - {key: vault_password_file, section: defaults} type: path yaml: {key: defaults.vault_password_file} DEFAULT_VERBOSITY: name: Verbosity default: 0 description: Sets the default verbosity, equivalent to the number of ``-v`` passed in the command line. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_VERBOSITY}] ini: - {key: verbosity, section: defaults} type: integer DEPRECATION_WARNINGS: name: Deprecation messages default: True description: "Toggle to control the showing of deprecation warnings" env: [{name: ANSIBLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS}] ini: - {key: deprecation_warnings, section: defaults} type: boolean DIFF_ALWAYS: name: Show differences default: False description: Configuration toggle to tell modules to show differences when in 'changed' status, equivalent to ``--diff``. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_DIFF_ALWAYS}] ini: - {key: always, section: diff} type: bool DIFF_CONTEXT: name: Difference context default: 3 description: How many lines of context to show when displaying the differences between files. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_DIFF_CONTEXT}] ini: - {key: context, section: diff} type: integer DISPLAY_ARGS_TO_STDOUT: name: Show task arguments default: False description: - "Normally ``ansible-playbook`` will print a header for each task that is run. These headers will contain the name: field from the task if you specified one. If you didn’t then ``ansible-playbook`` uses the task’s action to help you tell which task is presently running. Sometimes you run many of the same action and so you want more information about the task to differentiate it from others of the same action. If you set this variable to True in the config then ``ansible-playbook`` will also include the task’s arguments in the header." - This setting defaults to False because there is a chance that you have sensitive values in your parameters and you do not want those to be printed. - "If you set this to True you should be sure that you have secured your environment’s stdout (no one can shoulder surf your screen and you aren’t saving stdout to an insecure file) or made sure that all of your playbooks explicitly added the ``no_log: True`` parameter to tasks which have sensistive values See How do I keep secret data in my playbook? for more information." env: [{name: ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_ARGS_TO_STDOUT}] ini: - {key: display_args_to_stdout, section: defaults} type: boolean version_added: "2.1" DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS: name: Show skipped results default: True description: "Toggle to control displaying skipped task/host entries in a task in the default callback" env: [{name: DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS}] ini: - {key: display_skipped_hosts, section: defaults} type: boolean ERROR_ON_MISSING_HANDLER: name: Missing handler error default: True description: "Toggle to allow missing handlers to become a warning instead of an error when notifying." env: [{name: ANSIBLE_ERROR_ON_MISSING_HANDLER}] ini: - {key: error_on_missing_handler, section: defaults} type: boolean GALAXY_IGNORE_CERTS: name: Galaxy validate certs default: False description: - If set to yes, ansible-galaxy will not validate TLS certificates. This can be useful for testing against a server with a self-signed certificate. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_GALAXY_IGNORE}] ini: - {key: ignore_certs, section: galaxy} type: boolean GALAXY_ROLE_SKELETON: name: Galaxy skeleton direcotry default: description: Role skeleton directory to use as a template for the ``init`` action in ``ansible-galaxy``, same as ``--role-skeleton``. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_GALAXY_ROLE_SKELETON}] ini: - {key: role_skeleton, section: galaxy} type: path GALAXY_ROLE_SKELETON_IGNORE: name: Galaxy skeleton ignore default: [^.git$, ^.*/.git_keep$] description: patterns of files to ignore inside a galaxy role skeleton directory env: [{name: ANSIBLE_GALAXY_ROLE_SKELETON_IGNORE}] ini: - {key: role_skeleton_ignore, section: galaxy} type: list # TODO: unused? #GALAXY_SCMS: # name: Galaxy SCMS # default: git, hg # description: Available galaxy source control management systems. # env: [{name: ANSIBLE_GALAXY_SCMS}] # ini: # - {key: scms, section: galaxy} # type: list GALAXY_SERVER: default: https://galaxy.ansible.com description: "URL to prepend when roles don't specify the full URI, assume they are referencing this server as the source." env: [{name: ANSIBLE_GALAXY_SERVER}] ini: - {key: server, section: galaxy} yaml: {key: galaxy.server} HOST_KEY_CHECKING: name: Check host keys default: True description: 'Set this to "False" if you want to avoid host key checking by the underlying tools Ansible uses to connect to the host' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING}] ini: - {key: host_key_checking, section: defaults} type: boolean INVENTORY_ENABLED: name: Active Inventory plugins default: ['host_list', 'script', 'yaml', 'ini'] description: List of enabled inventory plugins, it also determines the order in which they are used. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_ENABLED}] ini: - {key: enable_plugins, section: inventory} type: list INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS: name: Inventory ignore extensions default: eval(BLACKLIST_EXTS + ( '~', '.orig', '.ini', '.cfg', '.retry')) description: List of extensions to ignore when using a directory as an inventory source env: [{name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_IGNORE}] ini: - {key: inventory_ignore_extensions, section: defaults} - {key: ignore_extensions, section: inventory} type: list INVENTORY_IGNORE_PATTERNS: name: Inventory ignore patterns default: [] description: List of patterns to ignore when using a directory as an inventory source env: [{name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_IGNORE_REGEX}] ini: - {key: inventory_ignore_patterns, section: defaults} - {key: ignore_patterns, section: inventory} type: list INVENTORY_UNPARSED_IS_FAILED: name: Unparsed Inventory failure default: False description: If 'true' unparsed inventory sources become fatal errors, they are warnings otherwise. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_UNPARSED_FAILED}] ini: - {key: unparsed_is_failed, section: inventory} type: bool MAX_FILE_SIZE_FOR_DIFF: name: Diff maxiumum file size default: 104448 description: Maximum size of files to be considered for diff display env: [{name: ANSIBLE_MAX_DIFF_SIZE}] ini: - {key: max_diff_size, section: defaults} type: int MERGE_MULTIPLE_CLI_TAGS: name: Merge 'tags' options default: True description: - "This allows changing how multiple –tags and –skip-tags arguments are handled on the command line. In Ansible up to and including 2.3, specifying –tags more than once will only take the last value of –tags." - "Setting this config value to True will mean that all of the –tags options will be merged together. The same holds true for –skip-tags." env: [{name: ANSIBLE_MERGE_MULTIPLE_CLI_TAGS}] ini: - {key: merge_multiple_cli_tags, section: defaults} type: bool version_added: "2.3" NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES: name: Network module families default: [eos, nxos, ios, iosxr, junos, ce, vyos, sros, dellos9, dellos10, dellos6, asa, aruba, aireos] description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES}] ini: - {key: network_group_modules, section: defaults} type: list yaml: {key: defaults.network_group_modules} #ONLY_NAMESPACE_FACTS: # Deffered to 2.5 # FIXME: reenable when we can remove ansible_ prefix from namespaced facts # default: False # description: # - Facts normally get injected as top level variables, this setting prevents that. # - Facts are still available in the `ansible_facts` variable w/o the `ansible_` prefix. # env: [{name: ANSIBLE_RESTRICT_FACTS}] # ini: # - {key: restrict_facts_namespace, section: defaults} # type: boolean # yaml: {key: defaults.restrict_facts_namespace} # version_added: "2.4" PARAMIKO_HOST_KEY_AUTO_ADD: # TODO: move to plugin default: False description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PARAMIKO_HOST_KEY_AUTO_ADD}] ini: - {key: host_key_auto_add, section: paramiko_connection} type: boolean PARAMIKO_LOOK_FOR_KEYS: # TODO: move to plugin default: True description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PARAMIKO_LOOK_FOR_KEYS}] ini: - {key: look_for_keys, section: paramiko_connection} type: boolean PARAMIKO_PROXY_COMMAND: # TODO: move to plugin default: description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PARAMIKO_PROXY_COMMAND}] ini: - {key: proxy_command, section: paramiko_connection} PARAMIKO_PTY: # TODO: move to plugin default: True description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PARAMIKO_PTY}] ini: - {key: pty, section: paramiko_connection} type: boolean PARAMIKO_RECORD_HOST_KEYS: # TODO: move to plugin default: True description: 'TODO: write it' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PARAMIKO_RECORD_HOST_KEYS}] ini: - {key: record_host_keys, section: paramiko_connection} type: boolean PERSISTENT_CONTROL_PATH_DIR: name: Persistence socket path default: ~/.ansible/pc description: Path to socket to be used by the connection persistence system. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PERSISTENT_CONTROL_PATH_DIR}] ini: - {key: control_path_dir, section: persistent_connection} type: path PERSISTENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT: name: Persistence timeout default: 30 description: This controls how long the persistent connection will remain idle before it is destroyed. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PERSISTENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT}] ini: - {key: connect_timeout, section: persistent_connection} type: integer PERSISTENT_CONNECT_RETRY_TIMEOUT: name: Persistence connection retry timeout default: 15 description: This contorls the retry timeout for presistent connection to connect to the local domain socket. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PERSISTENT_CONNECT_RETRY_TIMEOUT}] ini: - {key: connect_retry_timeout, section: persistent_connection} type: integer PERSISTENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT: name: Persistence command timeout default: 10 description: This controls the amount of time to wait for response from remote device before timing out presistent connection. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PERSISTENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT}] ini: - {key: command_timeout, section: persistent_connection} type: int RETRY_FILES_ENABLED: name: Retry files default: True description: This controls whether a failed Ansible playbook should create a .retry file. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_RETRY_FILES_ENABLED}] ini: - {key: retry_files_enabled, section: defaults} type: bool RETRY_FILES_SAVE_PATH: name: Retry files path default: ~ description: This sets the path in which Ansible will save .retry files when a playbook fails and retry files are enabled. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_RETRY_FILES_SAVE_PATH}] ini: - {key: retry_files_save_path, section: defaults} type: path SHOW_CUSTOM_STATS: name: Display custom stats default: False description: 'This adds the custom stats set via the set_stats plugin to the default output' env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SHOW_CUSTOM_STATS}] ini: - {key: show_custom_stats, section: defaults} type: bool STRING_TYPE_FILTERS: name: Filters to preserve strings default: [string, to_json, to_nice_json, to_yaml, ppretty, json] description: - "This list of filters avoids 'type conversion' when templating variables" - Useful when you want to avoid conversion into lists or dictionaries for JSON strings, for example. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_STRING_TYPE_FILTERS}] ini: - {key: dont_type_filters, section: jinja2} type: list SYSTEM_WARNINGS: name: System warnings default: True description: - Allows disabling of warnings related to potential issues on the system running ansible itself (not on the managed hosts) - These may include warnings about 3rd party packages or other conditions that should be resolved if possible. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_SYSTEM_WARNINGS}] ini: - {key: system_warnings, section: defaults} type: boolean USE_PERSISTENT_CONNECTIONS: name: Persistence default: False description: Toggles the use of persistence for connections. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_USE_PERSISTENT_CONNECTIONS}] ini: - {key: use_persistent_connections, section: defaults} type: boolean VARIABLE_PRECEDENCE: name: Group variable precedence default: ['all_inventory', 'groups_inventory', 'all_plugins_inventory', 'all_plugins_play', 'groups_plugins_inventory', 'groups_plugins_play'] description: Allows to change the group variable precedence merge order. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_PRECEDENCE}] ini: - {key: precedence, section: defaults} type: list version_added: "2.4" YAML_FILENAME_EXTENSIONS: name: Valid YAML extensions default: [".yml", ".yaml", ".json"] description: - "Check all of these extensions when looking for 'variable' files which should be YAML or JSON or vaulted versions of these." - 'This affects vars_files, include_vars, inventory and vars plugins among others.' env: - name: ANSIBLE_YAML_FILENAME_EXT ini: - section: yaml_valid_extensions key: defaults type: list ...