ansible-config - Man Page

usage: ansible-config [-h] [--version] [-v] {list,dump,view,init} ...

Config command line class

--version

show program's version number, config file location, configured module search path, module location, executable location and exit

-h,  --help

show this help message and exit

-v,  --verbose

Causes Ansible to print more debug messages. Adding multiple -v will increase the verbosity, the builtin plugins currently evaluate up to -vvvvvv. A reasonable level to start is -vvv, connection debugging might require -vvvv. This argument may be specified multiple times.

list

list and output available configs

--format 'FORMAT',   -f 'FORMAT'

Output format for list

-c 'CONFIG_FILE',   --config 'CONFIG_FILE'

path to configuration file, defaults to first file found in precedence.

-t 'TYPE',   --type 'TYPE'

Filter down to a specific plugin type.

dump

Shows the current settings, merges ansible.cfg if specified

--format 'FORMAT',   -f 'FORMAT'

Output format for dump

--only-changed,   --changed-only

Only show configurations that have changed from the default

-c 'CONFIG_FILE',   --config 'CONFIG_FILE'

path to configuration file, defaults to first file found in precedence.

-t 'TYPE',   --type 'TYPE'

Filter down to a specific plugin type.

view

Displays the current config file

-c 'CONFIG_FILE',   --config 'CONFIG_FILE'

path to configuration file, defaults to first file found in precedence.

-t 'TYPE',   --type 'TYPE'

Filter down to a specific plugin type.

init

Create initial configuration

--disabled

Prefixes all entries with a comment character to disable them

--format 'FORMAT',   -f 'FORMAT'

Output format for init

-c 'CONFIG_FILE',   --config 'CONFIG_FILE'

path to configuration file, defaults to first file found in precedence.

-t 'TYPE',   --type 'TYPE'

Filter down to a specific plugin type.

The following environment variables may be specified.

ANSIBLE_CONFIG -- Specify override location for the ansible config file

Many more are available for most options in ansible.cfg

For a full list check https://docs.ansible.com/. or use the ansible-config command.

/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg -- Config file, used if present

~/.ansible.cfg -- User config file, overrides the default config if present

./ansible.cfg -- Local config file (in current working directory) assumed to be 'project specific' and overrides the rest if present.

As mentioned above, the ANSIBLE_CONFIG environment variable will override all others.

Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan.

Copyright © 2018 Red Hat, Inc | Ansible. Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3 license.

ansible (1), ansible-console (1), ansible-doc (1), ansible-galaxy (1), ansible-inventory (1), ansible-playbook (1), ansible-pull (1), ansible-vault (1)

Extensive documentation is available in the documentation site: <https://docs.ansible.com>. IRC and mailing list info can be found in file CONTRIBUTING.md, available in: <https://github.com/ansible/ansible>