List of files managed by ansible

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Hi,

I am quite new to Ansible and look forward to use it to manage some of
our servers. We are a small company with only ~10 virtual servers
hosting each a different service and have multiple admins for those.

For us it does not make sense to port the configuration for every
service to Ansible, just for the common ones (OpenSSH, Userconfig, etc.).

Since we have multiple admins, some of which don't need to use Ansible,
because they manage those services directly on the server, it would be
good to have some way to communicate what files (or even lines) on the
server are managed by Ansible and which they are free to edit.

Writing headers like "This file is managed by Ansible" is only possible
for text files, so instead it would be an idea to create a managed file
path listing on the server.

Is there a way to do this or solve this in a different way?

kind regards,
Claudius

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I used to use xattr to tag files with this kind of information, but
that also requires user discipline to check each file.