Facts
Explore how to retrieve and utilize Ansible facts, which provide detailed information about remote hosts. Learn to use ad hoc commands and playbooks to display all or specific facts, enabling automation based on system data.
Ansible facts refer to variables related to remote hosts, providing details about the current host, such as the operating system, distribution, IP address, networking configuration, and storage configuration. These facts allow us to utilize the behavior or state of one system as the configuration of other systems.
Using an Ansible ad hoc command to display facts
The best way to understand Ansible facts is to list them ourselves using an Ansible ad hoc command. We can use ...