Force fact-gathering on all hosts

Question

I\'m sitting in front of a fairly complex Ansible project that we\'re using to set up our local development environments (multiple VMs) and there\'s one role that uses the f

Answer 1

This still seems to be an issue without a clean solution here in 2016, but newer versions of Ansible offer a "jsonfile" fact caching backend, which seems to be a decent compromise to installing Redis locally just to address this need. Now I just fire off an ansible all -m setup before running a playbook with the --limit option. Good enough for jazz!

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#fact-caching