custom log in ansible

Ansible configuration file uses an INI format to store its configuration data. In Ansible, we can overwrite nearly all of the configuration settings either through Ansible playbook options or environment variables.

While running an Ansible command, the command looks for its configuration file in a predefined order, as follows:

*ANSIBLE_CFG: This environment variable is used, provided it is set

*ansible.cfg: This is located in the current directory

*~/.ansible.cfg: This is located in the user's home directory

*/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

The default ansible configuration file is available under /etc/ansible

# tree /etc/ansible/

/etc/ansible/

├── ansible.cfg

└── hosts

[defaults] section

Ansible's configuration file is divided into several sections. The main section that we will concentrate on is the [defaults] general section.

inventory

This points to the path of the inventory file which contains the hostname or IP address details of managed nodes.

On most systems, it points to /etc/ansible/hosts, as follows

#inventory = /etc/ansible/hosts

roles_path

This contains the path of default roles directory where the Ansible playbook should look for additional roles:

#roles_path = /etc/ansible/roles

log_path

This defines the log files where Ansible should be storing its log.

The log file and path must have enough permission for the user running Ansible to perform read and write operations.

#log_path = /var/log/ansible.log

host_keychecking

A host key is assigned for individual managed nodes.

Now it is possible that the client nodes get re-installed multiple times which can cause Ansible to throw a warning at the time of initiating the connection.

Disabling this parameter will make Ansible ignore the error messages related to the known_hosts keys:

#host_key_checking = False

This is all about the ansible configuration file, we can learn more about different options in the configuration file on the official ansible page.

Relevant Blogs:

Ansible dictionary variables 

Ansible Playbook 

Ansible dynamic inventory 

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