community.general.consul_kv – Fetch metadata from a Consul key value store.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.consul_kv.

Synopsis

  • Lookup metadata for a playbook from the key value store in a Consul cluster. Values can be easily set in the kv store with simple rest commands
  • curl -X PUT -d 'some-value' http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/ansible/somedata

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
_raw
list / elements=string
List of key(s) to retrieve.
client_cert
string
ini entries:

[lookup_consul]
client_cert = None

env:ANSIBLE_CONSUL_CLIENT_CERT
The client cert to verify the ssl connection.
datacenter
string
Retrieve the key from a consul datacenter other than the default for the consul host.
host
string
Default:
"localhost"
ini entries:

[lookup_consul]
host = localhost

env:ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL
The target to connect to, must be a resolvable address. Will be determined from ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL if that is set.
ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL should look like this: https://my.consul.server:8500
index
string
If the key has a value with the specified index then this is returned allowing access to historical values.
port
string
Default:
8500
The port of the target host to connect to.
If you use ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL this value will be used from there.
recurse
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
If true, will retrieve all the values that have the given key as prefix.
scheme
string
Default:
"http"
Whether to use http or https.
If you use ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL this value will be used from there.
token
string
The acl token to allow access to restricted values.
url
string
added in 1.0.0 of community.general
ini entries:

[lookup_consul]
url = None

env:ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL
The target to connect to, should look like this: https://my.consul.server:8500.
validate_certs
string
Default:
"yes"
ini entries:

[lookup_consul]
validate_certs = yes

env:ANSIBLE_CONSUL_VALIDATE_CERTS
Whether to verify the ssl connection or not.

Examples

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: 'key contains {{item}}'
  with_community.general.consul_kv:
    - 'key/to/retrieve'

- name: Parameters can be provided after the key be more specific about what to retrieve
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: 'key contains {{item}}'
  with_community.general.consul_kv:
    - 'key/to recurse=true token=E6C060A9-26FB-407A-B83E-12DDAFCB4D98'

- name: retrieving a KV from a remote cluster on non default port
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.consul_kv', 'my/key', host='10.10.10.10', port='2000') }}"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Key Returned Description
_raw
dictionary
success
Value(s) stored in consul.


Authors

  • Unknown (!UNKNOWN)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/consul_kv_lookup.html