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@priteau priteau commented Aug 20, 2021

By default, Ansible injects a variable for every fact, prefixed with
ansible_. This can result in a large number of variables for each host,
which at scale can incur a performance penalty. Ansible provides a
configuration option [0] that can be set to False to prevent this
injection of facts. In this case, facts should be referenced via
ansible_facts..

This change updates all references to Ansible facts from using
individual fact variables to using the items in the
ansible_facts dictionary. This allows users to disable fact variable
injection in their Ansible configuration, which may provide some
performance improvement.

[0] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#inject-facts-as-vars

By default, Ansible injects a variable for every fact, prefixed with
ansible_. This can result in a large number of variables for each host,
which at scale can incur a performance penalty. Ansible provides a
configuration option [0] that can be set to False to prevent this
injection of facts. In this case, facts should be referenced via
ansible_facts.<fact>.

This change updates all references to Ansible facts from using
individual fact variables to using the items in the
ansible_facts dictionary. This allows users to disable fact variable
injection in their Ansible configuration, which may provide some
performance improvement.

[0] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#inject-facts-as-vars
@priteau priteau requested a review from markgoddard August 20, 2021 16:01
@markgoddard markgoddard merged commit 42882ca into master Aug 20, 2021
@markgoddard markgoddard deleted the ansible-facts branch June 25, 2024 08:43
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