setup - Gathers facts about remote hosts

See also

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/setup_module.html

Synopsis

• This module is automatically called by playbooks to gather useful variables about remote hosts that can be used in playbooks. It can also be executed directly by /usr/bin/ansible to check what variables are available to a host. Ansible provides many facts about the system, automatically.

• This module is also supported for Windows targets.

_setup_example:

setup example

# Display facts from all hosts and store them indexed by I(hostname) at C(/tmp/facts).
ansible all -i staging/hosts -m setup --tree /tmp/facts