We have looked at the setup module in previous chapters; this is the module that gathers facts about our target hosts. One of these facts is ansible_os_family; this tells us the type of operating system we are running. Let's check on both of our boxes:
$ ansible -i production centos -m setup | grep ansible_os_family$ ansible -i production ubuntu -m setup | grep ansible_os_family
As you can see from the following Terminal output, the CentOS box returns Red Hat, which is expected. However, the Ubuntu box does not return any information:
Let's take a look at why this is. First of all, we can rerun the command, but this ...
