Where are Ansible Modules Stored?

I had an issue with one of my Ansible modules recently and needed to make a change so I needed to locate the Python module.

It was onto google searching “Where are Ansbile Modules Stored?” I could not find any information around this question.

So after a lot of research I found the answer and will detail it below.

Ansible modules are basically blocks of Python code and the one I needed to edit was ios_config.py

I am running Ansible on Ubuntu so I just run one simple command

locate ios_config.py

This brings back the following result

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/modules/core/network/ios/ios_config.py

So I just need to go to this location and edit the file!

By default most of the time people will save playbooks in the root of the ansible folder /etc/ansible

But Ansible playbooks can be stored anywhere – I personally store mine in /etc/ansible/playbooks

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