Ansible's behavior is, in part, defined by its configuration file. The central configuration file (which impacts the behavior of Ansible for all users on the system) can be found at /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg. However, this is not the only place Ansible will look for its configuration; in fact, it will look in the following locations, from the top to the bottom.
The first instance of the file is the configuration it will use; all of the others are ignored, even if they are present:
- ANSIBLE_CONFIG: The file location specified by the value of this environment variable, if set
- ansible.cfg: In the current working directory
- ~/.ansible.cfg: In the home directory of the user
- /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg: The central configuration ...
