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Set the `ansible.cfg` for a Session

View and update the Ansible configuration used by CFS.

Ansible configuration is available through the ansible.cfg file. See the Configuring Ansible external documentation for more information about what values can be set.

CFS provides a default ansible.cfg file in the cfs-default-ansible-cfg Kubernetes ConfigMap in the services namespace.

To view the ansible.cfg file:

ncn-mw# kubectl get cm -n services cfs-default-ansible-cfg -o json | jq -r '.data."ansible.cfg"'

WARNING: Much of the configuration in this file is required by CFS to function properly. Particularly the cfs_aggregator callback plug-in, which is used for reporting configuration state to the CFS APIs, and the cfs_* strategy plug-ins. Exercise extreme caution when making changes to this ConfigMap’s contents. See Ansible Execution Environments for more information.

The default ansible.cfg file ConfigMap can be changed to a custom ConfigMap (within the services Kubernetes namespace) by updating it in the CFS service options. This will update all CFS sessions to use this file for ansible.cfg.

To use a different ansible.cfg on a per-session basis, use the --ansible-config option when creating a CFS session. See Use a Custom ansible.cfg File for more information.