Make use of Ansible 1.5 new features.

Most notably pipelining=True and sysctl_set=yes.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/ansible.cfg b/ansible.cfg
index 6afc1ef..82de41a 100644
--- a/ansible.cfg
+++ b/ansible.cfg
@@ -28,49 +28,57 @@ pattern = *
 # the default number of forks (parallelism) to be used.  Usually you
 # can crank this up.
 
-forks=5
+forks = 5
 
 # the timeout used by various connection types.  Usually this corresponds
 # to an SSH timeout
 
-timeout=10
+timeout = 10
 
 # when using --poll or "poll:" in an ansible playbook, and not specifying
 # an explicit poll interval, use this interval
 
-poll_interval=15
+poll_interval = 15
 
 # when specifying --sudo to /usr/bin/ansible or "sudo:" in a playbook,
 # and not specifying "--sudo-user" or "sudo_user" respectively, sudo
 # to this user account
 
-sudo=True
-#sudo_user=root
+sudo = True
+#sudo_user = root
+
+# what flags to pass to sudo
+sudo_flags = -H LC_ALL=C
 
 # the following forces ansible to always ask for the sudo password (instead of having
 # to add -K to the commandline). Or you can use the environment variable (ANSIBLE_ASK_SUDO_PASS)
 
-ask_sudo_pass=True
+ask_sudo_pass = True
 
 # the following forces ansible to always ask for the ssh-password (-k)
 # can also be set by the environment variable ANSIBLE_ASK_PASS
 
-#ask_pass=True
+#ask_pass = True
 
 # connection to use when -c <connection_type> is not specified
 
-transport=ssh
+transport = ssh
 
 # remote SSH port to be used when --port or "port:" or an equivalent inventory
 # variable is not specified.
 
-remote_port=22
+remote_port = 22
 
 # if set, always run /usr/bin/ansible commands as this user, and assume this value
 # if "user:" is not set in a playbook.  If not set, use the current Unix user
 # as the default
 
-#remote_user=root
+#remote_user = root
+
+# if set, always use this private key file for authentication, same as if passing
+# --private-key to ansible or ansible-playbook
+
+#private_key_file=/path/to/file
 
 # format of string $ansible_managed available within Jinja2 templates, replacing
 # {file}, {host} and {uid} with template filename, host and owner respectively.
@@ -88,11 +96,15 @@ connection_plugins = /usr/share/ansible_plugins/connection_plugins
 lookup_plugins     = /usr/share/ansible_plugins/lookup_plugins
 vars_plugins       = /usr/share/ansible_plugins/vars_plugins
 
-legacy_playbook_variables = no
-
 [ssh_connection]
 
+# if uncommented, sets the ansible ssh arguments to the following.  Leaving off ControlPersist
+# will result in poor performance, so use transport=paramiko on older platforms rather than
+# removing it
+
 ssh_args = -F ../virtualenv/.ssh/config
            -o ControlMaster=auto
            -o ControlPersist=60s
            -o ControlPath=/tmp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r
+
+pipelining = True