community.general.cloud_init_data_facts – Retrieve facts of cloud-init.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).

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.cloud_init_data_facts.

Synopsis

  • Gathers facts by reading the status.json and result.json of cloud-init.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

filter

string

Filter facts

Choices:

  • status

  • result

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Gather all facts of cloud init
  community.general.cloud_init_data_facts:
  register: result

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    var: result

- name: Wait for cloud init to finish
  community.general.cloud_init_data_facts:
    filter: status
  register: res
  until: "res.cloud_init_data_facts.status.v1.stage is defined and not res.cloud_init_data_facts.status.v1.stage"
  retries: 50
  delay: 5

Return Values

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

Key

Description

cloud_init_data_facts

dictionary

Facts of result and status.

Returned: success

Sample: “{ \”status\”: { \”v1\”: { \”datasource\”: \”DataSourceCloudStack\”, \”errors\”: [] }, \”result\”: { \”v1\”: { \”datasource\”: \”DataSourceCloudStack\”, \”init\”: { \”errors\”: [], \”finished\”: 1522066377.0185432, \”start\”: 1522066375.2648022 }, \”init-local\”: { \”errors\”: [], \”finished\”: 1522066373.70919, \”start\”: 1522066373.4726632 }, \”modules-config\”: { \”errors\”: [], \”finished\”: 1522066380.9097016, \”start\”: 1522066379.0011985 }, \”modules-final\”: { \”errors\”: [], \”finished\”: 1522066383.56594, \”start\”: 1522066382.3449218 }, \”stage\”: null } }”

Authors

  • René Moser (@resmo)