cs_facts - Gather facts on instances of Apache CloudStack based clouds.

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

  • This module fetches data from the metadata API in CloudStack. The module must be called from within the instance itself.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • yaml

Options

parameter required default choices comments
filter
 no
  • cloudstack_service_offering
  • cloudstack_availability_zone
  • cloudstack_public_hostname
  • cloudstack_public_ipv4
  • cloudstack_local_hostname
  • cloudstack_local_ipv4
  • cloudstack_instance_id
  • cloudstack_user_data
Filter for a specific fact.
meta_data_host
(added in 2.4)
 no
Host or IP of the meta data API service.
If not set, determination by parsing the dhcp lease file.

Examples

# Gather all facts on instances
- name: Gather cloudstack facts
  cs_facts:

# Gather specific fact on instances
- name: Gather cloudstack facts
  cs_facts: filter=cloudstack_instance_id

# Gather specific fact on instances with a given meta_data_host
- name: Gather cloudstack facts
  cs_facts:
    filter: cloudstack_instance_id
    meta_data_host: 169.254.169.254

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
cloudstack_availability_zone
zone the instance is deployed in.
 success string ch-gva-2
cloudstack_instance_id
UUID of the instance.
 success string ab4e80b0-3e7e-4936-bdc5-e334ba5b0139
cloudstack_local_hostname
local hostname of the instance.
 success string VM-ab4e80b0-3e7e-4936-bdc5-e334ba5b0139
cloudstack_local_ipv4
local IPv4 of the instance.
 success string 185.19.28.35
cloudstack_public_hostname
public IPv4 of the router. Same as cloudstack_public_ipv4.
 success string VM-ab4e80b0-3e7e-4936-bdc5-e334ba5b0139
cloudstack_public_ipv4
public IPv4 of the router.
 success string 185.19.28.35
cloudstack_service_offering
service offering of the instance.
 success string Micro 512mb 1cpu
cloudstack_user_data
data of the instance provided by users.
 success dict {'bla': 'foo'}

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/cs_facts_module.html