docs: reorganize "getting started" + cleanups old docs

Our README is currently pretty cluttered:
- Part of the README duplicates docs/getting_started/getting-started.md
-> Remove duplicates and extract useful info into the getting-started.md

- General info on Ansible environment troubleshooting
-> remove most of it as it's not specific to Kubespray, move to
docs/ansible/ansible.md
-> split inventory-related stuff of ansible.md into it's own file. This
should host documentation on how to manages Kubespray inventories in the
future.

ansible.md:
- remove the list of "Unused" variables, as:
  1. It's not accurate
  2. What matters is where users should put their variables
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Max Gautier
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@@ -19,68 +19,7 @@ Below are several ways to use Kubespray to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.
#### Usage
Install Ansible according to [Ansible installation guide](/docs/ansible/ansible.md#installing-ansible)
then run the following steps:
```ShellSession
# Copy ``inventory/sample`` as ``inventory/mycluster``
cp -rfp inventory/sample inventory/mycluster
# Update Ansible inventory file with the ip of your nodes
# Review and change parameters under ``inventory/mycluster/group_vars``
cat inventory/mycluster/group_vars/all/all.yml
cat inventory/mycluster/group_vars/k8s_cluster/k8s-cluster.yml
# Clean up old Kubernetes cluster with Ansible Playbook - run the playbook as root
# The option `--become` is required, as for example cleaning up SSL keys in /etc/,
# uninstalling old packages and interacting with various systemd daemons.
# Without --become the playbook will fail to run!
# And be mind it will remove the current kubernetes cluster (if it's running)!
ansible-playbook -i inventory/mycluster/hosts.yaml --become --become-user=root reset.yml
# Deploy Kubespray with Ansible Playbook - run the playbook as root
# The option `--become` is required, as for example writing SSL keys in /etc/,
# installing packages and interacting with various systemd daemons.
# Without --become the playbook will fail to run!
ansible-playbook -i inventory/mycluster/hosts.yaml --become --become-user=root cluster.yml
```
Note: When Ansible is already installed via system packages on the control node,
Python packages installed via `sudo pip install -r requirements.txt` will go to
a different directory tree (e.g. `/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages` on
Ubuntu) from Ansible's (e.g. `/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible` still on
Ubuntu). As a consequence, the `ansible-playbook` command will fail with:
```raw
ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.
```
This likely indicates that a task depends on a module present in ``requirements.txt``.
One way of addressing this is to uninstall the system Ansible package then
reinstall Ansible via ``pip``, but this not always possible and one must
take care regarding package versions.
A workaround consists of setting the `ANSIBLE_LIBRARY`
and `ANSIBLE_MODULE_UTILS` environment variables respectively to
the `ansible/modules` and `ansible/module_utils` subdirectories of the ``pip``
installation location, which is the ``Location`` shown by running
`pip show [package]` before executing `ansible-playbook`.
A simple way to ensure you get all the correct version of Ansible is to use
the [pre-built docker image from Quay](https://quay.io/repository/kubespray/kubespray?tab=tags).
You will then need to use [bind mounts](https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/)
to access the inventory and SSH key in the container, like this:
```ShellSession
git checkout v2.26.0
docker pull quay.io/kubespray/kubespray:v2.26.0
docker run --rm -it --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/inventory/sample,dst=/inventory \
--mount type=bind,source="${HOME}"/.ssh/id_rsa,dst=/root/.ssh/id_rsa \
quay.io/kubespray/kubespray:v2.26.0 bash
# Inside the container you may now run the kubespray playbooks:
ansible-playbook -i /inventory/inventory.ini --private-key /root/.ssh/id_rsa cluster.yml
```
See [Getting started](/docs/getting_started/getting-started.md)
#### Collection