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authorBrian Coca <bcoca@users.noreply.github.com>2021-09-01 15:42:24 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-09-01 15:42:24 -0400
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downloadansible-dcd31da01a118774544efbb36bb6600a33f99ca4.tar.gz
clarify cacheable (#75085)
* clarify cacheable * Update lib/ansible/modules/set_fact.py Co-authored-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com> Co-authored-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--lib/ansible/modules/set_fact.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/set_fact.py b/lib/ansible/modules/set_fact.py
index fe8eadf1a6..72a760002c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/set_fact.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/set_fact.py
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ options:
required: true
cacheable:
description:
- - This boolean converts the variable into an actual 'fact' which will also be added to the fact cache, if fact caching is enabled.
+ - This boolean converts the variable into an actual 'fact' which will also be added to the fact cache.
+ It does not enable fact caching across runs, it just means it will work with it if already enabled.
- Normally this module creates 'host level variables' and has much higher precedence, this option changes the nature and precedence
(by 7 steps) of the variable created.
U(https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html#variable-precedence-where-should-i-put-a-variable)