community.general.rax_facts – Gather facts for Rackspace Cloud Servers
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.rax_facts
.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python >= 2.6
pyrax
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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Server IP address to retrieve facts for, will match any IP assigned to the server |
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Rackspace API key, overrides credentials. |
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The URI of the authentication service. If not specified will be set to https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/ |
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File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided. |
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Environment as configured in ~/.pyrax.cfg, see https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration. |
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Server ID to retrieve facts for |
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Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone. Default: “rackspace” |
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Server name to retrieve facts for |
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Region to create an instance in. |
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The tenant ID used for authentication. |
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The tenant name used for authentication. |
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Rackspace username, overrides credentials. |
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Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints. Choices:
|
Notes
Note
The following environment variables can be used,
RAX_USERNAME
,RAX_API_KEY
,RAX_CREDS_FILE
,RAX_CREDENTIALS
,RAX_REGION
.RAX_CREDENTIALS
andRAX_CREDS_FILE
points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticatingRAX_USERNAME
andRAX_API_KEY
obviate the use of a credentials fileRAX_REGION
defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)
Examples
- name: Gather info about servers
hosts: all
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: Get facts about servers
local_action:
module: rax_facts
credentials: ~/.raxpub
name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
region: DFW
- name: Map some facts
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
ansible_ssh_host: "{{ rax_accessipv4 }}"
Authors
Matt Martz (@sivel)