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  1. Apr 08, 2020
    • Mark Goddard's avatar
      Avoid unconditional fact gathering · e924c99c
      Mark Goddard authored
      One way to improve the performance of Ansible is through fact caching.
      Rather than gather facts in every play, we can configure Ansible to
      cache them in a persistent store. An example Ansible configuration for
      doing this is as follows:
      
      [defaults]
      gathering = smart
      fact_caching = jsonfile
      fact_caching_connection = ./facts
      fact_caching_timeout = 86400
      
      While this mostly just works, there are a few places where we
      unconditionally gather facts using the setup module. This change
      modifies these to only gather facts when necessary.
      
      We no longer execute the MichaelRigart.interfaces role using become:
      true, since it may gather facts and we do not want it to do so as root.
      The role uses become where necessary.
      
      Change-Id: I9984a187fc6c0496ada489bb8eef36e44d695aac
      Story: 2007492
      Task: 39216
      e924c99c
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