We can have the ansible.cfg file at various locations, the default location shipped with ansible installation is at,
/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
The default ansible.cfg has the least priority when you have multiple ansible.cfg defined in your system/server.
The priority is set to ansible.cfg file is based on how it is defined or stored,
- ANSIBLE_CONF – Environment variable, defined in your server/system.
- ./ansible.cfg – Ansible config file defined in your current working directory.
- ~/.ansible.cfg – Ansible config file defined in your home directory.
- /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg – Ansible config file defined in default location.