aws_caller_facts – Get facts about the user and account being used to make AWS calls.

New in version 2.6.

Synopsis

  • This module returns information about the account and user / role from which the AWS access tokens originate.
  • The primary use of this is to get the account id for templating into ARNs or similar to avoid needing to specify this information in inventory.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • boto
  • boto3
  • botocore
  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
aws_access_key
-
AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key
-
AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
ec2_url
-
Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
profile
-
added in 1.6
Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region
-
The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
security_token
-
added in 1.6
AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.

aliases: access_token
validate_certs
boolean
added in 1.5
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Notes

Note

  • If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION
  • Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

Examples

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

- name: Get the current caller identity facts
  aws_caller_facts:
  register: caller_facts

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
account
string
 success
The account id the access credentials are associated with.

Sample:
123456789012
account_alias
string
 when caller has the iam:ListAccountAliases permission
The account alias the access credentials are associated with.

Sample:
acme-production
arn
string
 success
The arn identifying the user the credentials are associated with.

Sample:
arn:aws:sts::123456789012:federated-user/my-federated-user-name
user_id
string
 success
The user id the access credentials are associated with. Note that this may not correspond to anything you can look up in the case of roles or federated identities.

Sample:
123456789012:my-federated-user-name


Status

Authors

  • Ed Costello (@orthanc)
  • Stijn Dubrul (@sdubrul)

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