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persistent – Use a persistent unix socket for connection¶

New in version 2.3.

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Synopsis ¶

This is a helper plugin to allow making other connections persistent.

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
persistent_command_timeout integer	Default: 10	ini entries: [persistent_connection] command_timeout = 10 env:ANSIBLE_PERSISTENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT var: ansible_command_timeout	Configures, in seconds, the amount of time to wait for a command to return from the remote device. If this timer is exceeded before the command returns, the connection plugin will raise an exception and close

Status ¶

This connection is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This connection is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors¶

Ansible Core Team

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