Ansible maintains a central configuration file, which is used to instruct Ansible on how to behave. Ansible's primary configuration file should be located (for most Linux distributions) at the following location:
/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
This configuration file instructs Ansible on how to behave at runtime. During the pre-startup sequences of Ansible's execution, the configuration file is loaded into memory and sets a number of environmental flags. These flags and configuration options can help you customize the Ansible runtime. The following configuration is a snapshot of the ansible.cfg file.
Nearly all Ansible configuration options can be overridden via modifications in a playbook. Changes to this configuration file will give you the ability to set base functionality/configuration.
The Ansible configuration file has a pretty detailed set of...
