Sometimes, Ansible feels slow, mainly if you have a very long list of tasks to execute and/or if you have a huge amount of machines. There are multiple reasons for this, and ways to avoid it, and we are going to look at three of those ways.
Optimizations
Pipelining
One of the reasons Ansible is slow by default is that for every module execution and for every host, Ansible will perform the following actions:
- SSH handshake
- Execute the task
- Close the SSH connection
As you can see, this means that if you have 10 tasks to be executed on a single remote server, Ansible will open (and close) the connection 10 times. Since the SSH protocol is an encrypted protocol, this makes the SSH handshake an even longer process, since the two...
