From what I know the Ansible config file (ansible.cfg
) might be located here for user-level configuration settings:
~/.ansible.cfg
As well as the system-wide config located here; where you state you can’t find any such file:
/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
If somehow you have multiple users on your system, perhaps there is a ~/.ansible.cfg
floating in one of their user directories you have forgotten about?
You state you might have installed it using pip
, but checking the Homebrew formula for Ansible, it was only recently bumped from version 1.9.2 to 1.9.3 on September 4th. So perhaps you installed it via Homebrew?
And your main concern seems to be whether the ansible.cfg
is necessary:
Ansible works as far as I can tell (without a local ansible.cfg
, and
there’s nothing in the ansible
folder in the user dir), but I’m
confounded.
Can someone please explain what I’m not getting here?
Yes, it should work fine without a configuration. For most pieces of software all a config file does is override the core system defaults. So if ansible.cfg
is missing, Ansible would still work but only be using the core system defaults. As explained in Ansible’s official documentation:
Certain settings in Ansible are adjustable via a configuration file.
The stock configuration should be sufficient for most users, but there
may be reasons you would want to change them.
Changes can be made and used in a configuration file which will be
processed in the following order:
* ANSIBLE_CONFIG (an environment variable)
* ansible.cfg (in the current directory)
* .ansible.cfg (in the home directory)
* /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg