Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Adding custom facts to a module

Ansible facts (as we mentioned in earlier chapters) provide informational data points about the systems that have run a playbook or task. At some point, we might need to set some Ansible facts and return them to the Ansible control server. In this section, we will discuss how to set Ansible facts within our Hello World module and some of the limitations of Ansible facts.

According to the Ansible documentation (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html):

The setup - Gathers facts about remote hosts module that ships with Ansible provides many variables about a system that can be used in playbooks and templates. However, it's possible to also add your own facts without modifying ...