ansible installation: no /etc/ansible/hosts file

[Sebastian M Cheung]

No file for /etc/ansible/hosts

Where is this file? Instructor opened an automatically generated /etc/ansible/hosts file but there is no such file in Mac OSX after ansible is installed?

Am I supposed to create this file myself or it is automatically generated? as I cannot find it on Mac OSX after 

$brew install ansible

as well as

$pip install ansible

Thanks

[Arbab Nazar]

You have to create it by yourself as pip and brew didn't create it. I think you even didn't have /etc/ansible directory.

[rup]

We don't bother with the /etc/ansible/hosts file because we installed ansible in a different directory.  So we always specify which host file to use in our run.  I.e. when in the ansible directory I execute:

ansible-playbook -i <hosts_file> site.yml -vv

[stevenjw...@gmail.com]

What if you want to use another directory for hosts, this is where the ansible.cfg file comes in handy. So where does this file go in MacOSX?

[Dick Visser]

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_configuration.html#configuration-file

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[ebcak random]

Referenced here in order at what ansible looks for...personally I never use /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg and tend to use a  master one in  ~/ or ansible.cfg per project directory which specifies other certain criteria I need for my playbook

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#ansible-configuration-settings

• ANSIBLE_CONFIG (environment variable if set)

• ansible.cfg (in the current directory)

• ~/.ansible.cfg (in the home directory)

• /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg