What Facts Are & Why They Matter
Auto-discovered data about each host.
Servers Know Themselves
Every server already holds tons of detail: its OS, memory, IP and more. Ansible can read all of it automatically before doing any work. 🌟
Meet Facts
Ansible calls this auto-discovered system data facts. They describe each host so your playbook can adapt to the machine it runs on.
All lessons in this course
- What Facts Are & Why They Matter
- Explore Facts with the setup Module
- Use ansible_facts in Tasks
- Disabling Fact Gathering for Speed