-c ssh is preferred in most cases if you have ControlPersist available, otherwise if you are comfortable you
can turn off recording while leaving host key checking on, etc.
Use case: e.g. dual homed hosts on production en management network
The inventory_hostname is the regular host name and matches the
dns name on the production network; ansible connects to the host
through a management network; the dns name on the management network
is standardized and equals ${inventory_hostname}-mgt.mynetwork.com
Now this can be configured as the default in group_vars/all:
ansible_ssh_host: {{ inventory_hostname + '-mgt.mynetwork.com' }}
str() throws an UnicodeEncodeError for code points that cannot be
represented in 7-bit ASCII. This makes it impossible to use any
non-ASCII characters in module arguments. Using encode('utf-8')
gives the desired result.
* Moved the --list-hosts option that is common to both `ansible` and
`ansible-playbook` into utils/__init__.py (corrects a FIXME)
* Wrote new help text for the --list-hosts option that makes sense
for both of the commands that it applies to
* Changed the usage argument in `ansible-playbook` so that it is
setup in the base_parser method the same way that it is in
the `ansible` executable
* Updated the help text for several options to correct typos,
clarify meaning, improve readability, or fix grammatical errors.
In the case of `ansible-pull`, I changed the help text so that
it adheres to the same standards as the other executables.
The action doesn't actually change anything on a system, so setting
the status to changed is wrong. add_host is much like set_fact in that
regard.
Since changed is False by default, there is no need to explicity set
it, so just create an empty dict for result and add to it from there.
ansible.constants was calling expanduser (by way of shell_expand_path)
on the entire configured value for the library and *_plugins
configuration values, but these values have always been interpreted as
multiple directories separated by os.pathsep. Thus, if you supplied
multiple directories for one of these values, typically only the first
(at least on *nix) would have e.g. "~" expanded to HOME.
Now PluginLoader does expansion on each individual path in each of
these variables.
