View ansible configuration.
usage: ansible-config [-h] [--version] [-v] {list,dump,view,init,validate} ...
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
--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 – Override the default ansible config file
Many more are available for most options in ansible.cfg
/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg – Config file, used if present
~/.ansible.cfg – User config file, overrides the default config if present
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)
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-config.html