add toggle to controle inventory parse as error (#28729)

* add toggle to controle inventory parse as error

also rearranged new inventory options into it's own ini section

* updated with inventory features

also minor fixes/consolidation on deprecated/removed modules

* tweaked settings

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/examples/ansible.cfg b/examples/ansible.cfg
index 7abae073f2..fa73d4a514 100644
--- a/examples/ansible.cfg
+++ b/examples/ansible.cfg
@@ -72,9 +72,6 @@
 # enable callback plugins, they can output to stdout but cannot be 'stdout' type.
 #callback_whitelist = timer, mail
 
-# enable inventory plugins, default: 'host_list', 'script', 'yaml', 'ini'
-#inventory_enabled = host_list, virtualbox, yaml, constructed
-
 # Determine whether includes in tasks and handlers are "static" by
 # default. As of 2.0, includes are dynamic by default. Setting these
 # values to True will make includes behave more like they did in the
@@ -313,6 +310,19 @@
 # set default errors for all plays
 #any_errors_fatal = False
 
+[inventory]
+# enable inventory plugins, default: 'host_list', 'script', 'yaml', 'ini'
+#enabled_plugins = host_list, virtualbox, yaml, constructed
+
+# ignore these extensions when parsing a directory as inventory source
+#ignore_extensions = '.pyc', '.pyo', '.swp', '.bak', '~', '.rpm', '.md', '.txt', '~', '.orig', '.ini', '.cfg', '.retry'
+
+# ignore files matching these patterns when parsing a directory as inventory source
+#ignore_patterns=
+
+# If 'true' unparsed inventory sources become fatal errors, they are warnings otherwise.
+#unparsed_is_failed=False
+
 [privilege_escalation]
 #become=True
 #become_method=sudo