community.general.hiera – get info from hiera data¶
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.hiera
.
Requirements¶
The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.
hiera (command line utility)
Parameters¶
Examples¶
# All this examples depends on hiera.yml that describes the hierarchy
- name: "a value from Hiera 'DB'"
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.hiera', 'foo') }}"
- name: "a value from a Hiera 'DB' on other environment"
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.hiera', 'foo environment=production') }}"
- name: "a value from a Hiera 'DB' for a concrete node"
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.hiera', 'foo fqdn=puppet01.localdomain') }}"
Return Values¶
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:
Key | Returned | Description |
---|---|---|
_raw
list
/ elements=string
|
success |
a value associated with input key
|
Authors¶
Juan Manuel Parrilla (@jparrill)