support ansible check and diff mode

Registered by Jeffrey Zhang

* Operators would like to see some dry run like features in kolla-ansible.
* Would like to see the return of something like genconfig, where
configs can be generated ahead of time and diffed/reviewed before deploy.
* Also some general discussion in this session on management and scaling
difficulties with kolla.
* Inventory management needs to be more flexible.
* Operations are too slow once you hit about 200 nodes, operators are
finding they have to use manual trickery to divide up their inventories.
* A lot of operations take place when very little has changed config wise.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Eduardo Gonzalez
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Jeffrey Zhang
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Jeffrey Zhang
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for rocky
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
None
Started by
Eduardo Gonzalez
Completed by
zhubingbing

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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/ansible-check-mode,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/568422
    Support check and diff mode for merge_config and merge_yaml module

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