What is the nature and description of the request?
When exporting configuration via ansible.controller.export for inventories, the module follows all dependencies and will also export details for all related hosts and groups. Customers doing migrations of dynamic inventories with significant host counts are experience long job times (12+ hours) because the module is making individual requests for every related host and group. However, that information is not needed as you can simply sync the dynamic inventory post-migration and populate the destination inventory much more efficiently.
Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)
The time to export unnecessary configuration artifacts is hindering migration efforts.
How would you like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)
Enable an option in ansible.controller.export to not follow related links for hosts/groups when dynamic inventory sources are configured.
Feature Request
Undefined