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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
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markgoddard committed May 13, 2021
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion molecule/shared/prepare.yml
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apt:
update_cache: true
become: true
when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
when: ansible_facts.os_family == "Debian"
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions tasks/set_facts.yml
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set_fact:
chrony_config: /etc/chrony/chrony.conf
chrony_service: chrony
when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
when: ansible_facts.os_family == "Debian"

- name: set_facts | Define RedHat Facts
set_fact:
chrony_config: /etc/chrony.conf
chrony_service: chronyd
when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat"
when: ansible_facts.os_family == "RedHat"

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