The known_hosts module lets you add or remove a host from the
known_hosts file. This is useful if you're going to want to use the
git module over ssh, for example. If you have a very large number of
host keys to manage, you will find the template module more useful.
This was pull request 7840 from the old ansible repo, which was
accepted-in-principle but not yet merged. The mailing list thread
reading it is:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-devel/_e7H_VT6UJE/discussion
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