One way to improve the performance of Ansible is through fact caching.
Rather than gather facts in every play, we can configure Ansible to
cache them in a persistent store. An example Ansible configuration for
doing this is as follows:
[defaults]
gathering = smart
fact_caching = jsonfile
fact_caching_connection = ./facts
fact_caching_timeout = 86400
While this mostly just works, there are a few places where we
unconditionally gather facts using the setup module. This change
modifies these to only gather facts when necessary.
We no longer execute the MichaelRigart.interfaces role using become:
true, since it may gather facts and we do not want it to do so as root.
The role uses become where necessary.
Change-Id: I9984a187fc6c0496ada489bb8eef36e44d695aac
Story: 2007492
Task: 39216
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