Leveraging Ansible Callback Plugins for Enhanced Performance

Profiling, Troubleshooting, and Optimizing Resources in Ansible Automation with timer, profile_tasks, and profile_roles Callback Plugins

Introduction

Ansible is a powerful open-source automation tool used for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. To harness the full potential of Ansible, it’s essential to fine-tune its configuration according to your specific needs. In this article, we’ll delve into the ansible.cfg file and explore how to optimize Ansible’s performance by utilizing callback plugins. Specifically, we will focus on the `[defaults]` section of the ansible.cfg file and the configuration options `callback_whitelist` and `callbacks_enabled`.

Understanding Callback Plugins

Callback plugins in Ansible are used to customize the output of playbooks and provide additional functionality during playbook execution. They can be configured globally in the ansible.cfg file or per-playbook using the `ansible.cfg` setting in a playbook. Callback plugins offer a wide range of capabilities, from generating custom reports to…