Ansible controller on IBM i | ansible.cfg

[Marcelo Avalos]

Hello,
I have two concerns.

Creating an ansible.cfg file on path /home/QSECOFR/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ibm/power_ibmi/playbooks/
ls
ansible.cfg

vi ansible.cfg
[defaults]
roles_path = ../roles
inventory = hosts_ibmi.ini

[ssh_connection]
pipelining = True

What would be the preferred parameters to be use on ansible.cfg for Ansible control for IBM i?

By the other side, issuing ansible --version
# ansible --version
ansible 2.9.9
config file = None
configured module search path = ['/HOME/QSECOFR/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
executable location = ./ansible
python version = 3.6.12 (default, Nov 10 2020, 13:50:57) [GCC 6.3.0]

config file is none How should I attach the ansible.cfg created before to Ansible?

Regards
MAD

[Jesse G]

Greetings. I believe you will need to place the file in /etc/ansible.cfg

Assigning to @{557058:54c6b9d7-8bc8-4000-b0f7-c30e024f0298} for further assistance as needed.

[mengxumx]

Hello,

When you created an ansible.cfg file in /etc/ansible with below data:

$ cat /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
[defaults]
library=~/.ansible/plugins/modules:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules
action_plugins=~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ibm/power_ibmi/plugins/action

You will get a correct ansible --version output like --

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.9.9
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

You can also create the inventory file there --

$ cat /etc/ansible/hosts 
[local]
localhost ansible_connection=local

[ibmi]
ut28p60 ansible_ssh_user=xumeng  ansible_python_interpreter=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/python2

[Marcelo Avalos]

Yes, that guidelines help to setup Ansible