Turn off gather_facts if you don't need it¶
If you execute a playbook with yaml
gather_facts: true
, Ansible starts collecting facts (data from your node that is stored into variables). These details include variables from the remote host such as network configuration variables, hostnames and so on.
The collection of these facts is a time-consuming process and in order to speed up the execution of the playbook you can turn gathering facts off.
Bad¶
---
- hosts: all
become: true
gather_facts: true
tasks:
- name: restart mysql
ansible.builtin.service:
name: mysql
state: restarted
Good¶
---
- hosts: all
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- name: restart mysql
ansible.builtin.service:
name: mysql
state: restarted
Keep in mind that you need to enable gather_facts
if you want to use host-variables or want to collect information about the remote host. A list about some of these Ansible facts can be found here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_vars_facts.html#ansible-facts