ansible.builtin.config lookup – Lookup current Ansible configuration values

Note

This lookup plugin is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short plugin name config even without specifying the collections: keyword. However, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the plugin documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same lookup plugin name.

New in version 2.5: of ansible.builtin

Synopsis

  • Retrieves the value of an Ansible configuration setting.

  • You can use ansible-config list to see all available settings.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

_terms

string / required

The key(s) to look up

on_missing

string

action to take if term is missing from config

Error will raise a fatal error

Skip will just ignore the term

Warn will skip over it but issue a warning

Choices:

  • error ← (default)

  • skip

  • warn

plugin_name

string

added in 2.12 of ansible.builtin

name of the plugin for which you want to retrieve configuration settings.

plugin_type

string

added in 2.12 of ansible.builtin

the type of the plugin referenced by ‘plugin_name’ option.

Choices:

  • become

  • cache

  • callback

  • cliconf

  • connection

  • httpapi

  • inventory

  • lookup

  • netconf

  • shell

  • vars

Examples

- name: Show configured default become user
  debug: msg="{{ lookup('config', 'DEFAULT_BECOME_USER')}}"

- name: print out role paths
  debug:
    msg: "These are the configured role paths: {{lookup('config', 'DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH')}}"

- name: find retry files, skip if missing that key
  find:
    paths: "{{lookup('config', 'RETRY_FILES_SAVE_PATH')|default(playbook_dir, True)}}"
    patterns: "*.retry"

- name: see the colors
  debug: msg="{{item}}"
  loop: "{{lookup('config', 'COLOR_OK', 'COLOR_CHANGED', 'COLOR_SKIP', wantlist=True)}}"

- name: skip if bad value in var
  debug: msg="{{ lookup('config', config_in_var, on_missing='skip')}}"
  var:
    config_in_var: UNKNOWN

- name: show remote user and port for ssh connection
  debug: msg={{q("config", "remote_user", "port", plugin_type="connection", plugin_name="ssh", on_missing='skip')}}

- name: show remote_tmp setting for shell (sh) plugin
  debug: msg={{q("config", "remote_tmp", plugin_type="shell", plugin_name="sh")}}

Return Values

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

Key

Description

_raw

any

value(s) of the key(s) in the config

Returned: success

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.