Ansible: Up and Running

Appendix B. Default Settings

Ansible defines a number of settings. You can override the default values of these settings in the Ansible configuration file or as an environment variable.

The configuration file is broken up into the following sections:

• defaults

• ssh_connection

• paramiko

• accelerate

Table B-1. Defaults section

Config name	Environment variable	Default value
hostfile	ANSIBLE_HOSTS	/etc/ansible/hosts
library	ANSIBLE_LIBRARY	(none)
roles_path	ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH	/etc/ansible/roles
remote_tmp	ANSIBLE_REMOTE_TEMP	$HOME/.ansible/tmp
module_name	(none)	command
pattern	(none)	*
forks	ANSIBLE_FORKS	5
module_args	ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS	(empty string)
module_lang	ANSIBLE_MODULE_LANG	en_US.UTF-8
timeout	ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT	10
poll_interval	ANSIBLE_POLL_INTERVAL	15
remote_user	ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER	current user
ask_pass	ANSIBLE_ASK_PASS	false
private_key_file	ANSIBLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE	(none)
sudo_user	ANSIBLE_SUDO_USER	root
ask_sudo_pass	ANSIBLE_ASK_SUDO_PASS	false
remote_port	ANSIBLE_REMOTE_PORT	(none)
ask_vault_pass	ANSIBLE_ASK_VAULT_PASS	false
vault_password_file	ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE	(none)
ansible_managed	(none)	Ansible managed: {file} modified on %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S by {uid} on {host}
syslog_facility	ANSIBLE_SYSLOG_FACILITY	LOG_USER
keep_remote_files	ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES	true
sudo	ANSIBLE_SUDO	false
sudo_exe	ANSIBLE_SUDO_EXE	sudo
sudo_flags	ANSIBLE_SUDO_FLAGS	-H
hash_behaviour	ANSIBLE_HASH_BEHAVIOUR	replace