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When Ansible has problems running plays against a host, it will output the name of the host into a file in the user's home directory ending in '.retry'. These are often not used and just cause clutter, is there a way to turn them off or put them in a different directory?
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retry file. When playbooks fail to run against a host Ansible creates a retry file name 'hostname. retry. ' The file outlines the problem Ansible had running the play.
In Ansible's case that default configuration file is (ansible. cfg) located in /etc/ansible/ansible.
Pipelining is the modern Ansible method of speeding up your ssh connections across the network to the managed hosts. It replaces the former Accelerated Mode. It reduces the number of ssh operations required to execute a module by executing many Ansible modules without an actual file transfer.
There are two options that you can add to the [defaults] section of the ansible.cfg file that will control whether or not .retry files are created and where they are created.
[defaults] ... retry_files_enabled = True # Create them - the default retry_files_enabled = False # Do not create them retry_files_save_path = "~/" # The directory they will go into # (home directory by default) If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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