Ansible - actions BEFORE gathering facts -

does know how (like wait port / boot of managed node) before gathering facts? know can turn gathering facts off

gather_facts: no 

and then wait port if need facts while still need wait until node boots up?

gathering facts equivalent running setup module. can manually gather facts running it. it's not documented, add task this:

- name: gathering facts   setup: 

in combination gather_facts: no on playbook level facts fetched when above task executed.