community.azure.azure_rm_resource_info module – Generic facts of Azure resources

Note

This module is part of the community.azure collection (version 1.1.0).

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.azure.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.azure.azure_rm_resource_info.

DEPRECATED

Removed in

version 2.0.0

Why

The Ansible collection community.azure is deprecated. Use azure.azcollection instead.

Alternative

Use azure.azcollection.azure_rm_resource_info instead.

Synopsis

  • Obtain facts of any resource using Azure REST API.

  • This module gives access to resources that are not supported via Ansible modules.

  • Refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/ regarding details related to specific resource REST API.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7

  • The host that executes this module must have the azure.azcollection collection installed via galaxy

  • All python packages listed in collection’s requirements-azure.txt must be installed via pip on the host that executes modules from azure.azcollection

  • Full installation instructions may be found https://galaxy.ansible.com/azure/azcollection

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

ad_user

string

Active Directory username. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.

adfs_authority_url

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has your own ADFS authority.

api_profile

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

Selects an API profile to use when communicating with Azure services. Default value of latest is appropriate for public clouds; future values will allow use with Azure Stack.

Default: “latest”

api_version

string

Specific API version to be used.

auth_source

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication.

Can also be set via the ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable.

When set to auto (the default) the precedence is module parameters -> env -> credential_file -> cli.

When set to env, the credentials will be read from the environment variables

When set to credential_file, it will read the profile from ~/.azure/credentials.

When set to cli, the credentials will be sources from the Azure CLI profile. subscription_id or the environment variable AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID can be used to identify the subscription ID if more than one is present otherwise the default az cli subscription is used.

When set to msi, the host machine must be an azure resource with an enabled MSI extension. subscription_id or the environment variable AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID can be used to identify the subscription ID if the resource is granted access to more than one subscription, otherwise the first subscription is chosen.

The msi was added in Ansible 2.6.

Choices:

  • auto ← (default)

  • cli

  • credential_file

  • env

  • msi

cert_validation_mode

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

Controls the certificate validation behavior for Azure endpoints. By default, all modules will validate the server certificate, but when an HTTPS proxy is in use, or against Azure Stack, it may be necessary to disable this behavior by passing ignore. Can also be set via credential file profile or the AZURE_CERT_VALIDATION environment variable.

Choices:

  • ignore

  • validate

client_id

string

Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

cloud_environment

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

For cloud environments other than the US public cloud, the environment name (as defined by Azure Python SDK, eg, AzureChinaCloud, AzureUSGovernment), or a metadata discovery endpoint URL (required for Azure Stack). Can also be set via credential file profile or the AZURE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT environment variable.

Default: “AzureCloud”

log_mode

string

Parent argument.

log_path

string

Parent argument.

password

string

Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.

profile

string

Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file.

provider

string

Provider type, should be specified in no URL is given.

resource_group

string

Resource group to be used.

Required if URL is not specified.

resource_name

string

Resource name.

resource_type

string

Resource type.

secret

string

Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

subresource

string

List of subresources.

name

string

Subresource name.

namespace

string

Subresource namespace.

type

string

Subresource type.

subscription_id

string

Your Azure subscription Id.

tenant

string

Azure tenant ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

url

string

Azure RM Resource URL.

Notes

Note

  • For authentication with Azure you can pass parameters, set environment variables, use a profile stored in ~/.azure/credentials, or log in before you run your tasks or playbook with az login.

  • Authentication is also possible using a service principal or Active Directory user.

  • To authenticate via service principal, pass subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or set environment variables AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_SECRET and AZURE_TENANT.

  • To authenticate via Active Directory user, pass ad_user and password, or set AZURE_AD_USER and AZURE_PASSWORD in the environment.

  • Alternatively, credentials can be stored in ~/.azure/credentials. This is an ini file containing a [default] section and the following keys: subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or subscription_id, ad_user and password. It is also possible to add additional profiles. Specify the profile by passing profile or setting AZURE_PROFILE in the environment.

See Also

See also

Sign in with Azure CLI

How to authenticate using the az login command.

Examples

- name: Get scaleset info
  community.azure.azure_rm_resource_info:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    provider: compute
    resource_type: virtualmachinescalesets
    resource_name: myVmss
    api_version: "2017-12-01"

- name: Query all the resources in the resource group
  community.azure.azure_rm_resource_info:
    resource_group: "{{ resource_group }}"
    resource_type: resources

Return Values

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

Key

Description

response

complex

Response specific to resource type.

Returned: always

id

string

Id of the Azure resource.

Returned: always

Sample: “/subscriptions/xxxx…xxxx/resourceGroups/v-xisuRG/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/myVM”

location

string

Resource location.

Returned: always

Sample: “eastus”

name

string

Resource name.

Returned: always

Sample: “myVM”

properties

complex

Specifies the virtual machine’s property.

Returned: always

diagnosticsProfile

complex

Specifies the boot diagnostic settings state.

Returned: always

bootDiagnostics

dictionary

A debugging feature, which to view Console Output and Screenshot to diagnose VM status.

Returned: always

Sample: {“enabled”: true, “storageUri”: “https://vxisurgdiag.blob.core.windows.net/”}

hardwareProfile

dictionary

Specifies the hardware settings for the virtual machine.

Returned: always

Sample: {“vmSize”: “Standard_D2s_v3”}

networkProfile

complex

Specifies the network interfaces of the virtual machine.

Returned: always

networkInterfaces

list / elements=string

Describes a network interface reference.

Returned: always

Sample: [{“id”: “/subscriptions/xxxx…xxxx/resourceGroups/v-xisuRG/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/myvm441”}]

osProfile

complex

Specifies the operating system settings for the virtual machine.

Returned: always

adminUsername

string

Specifies the name of the administrator account.

Returned: always

Sample: “azureuser”

allowExtensionOperations

boolean

Specifies whether extension operations should be allowed on the virtual machine.

This may only be set to False when no extensions are present on the virtual machine.

Returned: always

Sample: true

computerName

string

Specifies the host OS name of the virtual machine.

Returned: always

Sample: “myVM”

linuxConfiguration

dictionary

Specifies the Linux operating system settings on the virtual machine.

Returned: when OS type is Linux

Sample: {“disablePasswordAuthentication”: false, “provisionVMAgent”: true}

requireGuestProvisionSignale

boolean

Specifies the host require guest provision signal or not.

Returned: always

Sample: true

secrets

list / elements=string

Specifies set of certificates that should be installed onto the virtual machine.

Returned: always

Sample: []

provisioningState

string

The provisioning state.

Returned: always

Sample: “Succeeded”

storageProfile

complex

Specifies the storage account type for the managed disk.

Returned: always

dataDisks

list / elements=string

Specifies the parameters that are used to add a data disk to virtual machine.

Returned: always

Sample: [{“caching”: “None”, “createOption”: “Attach”, “diskSizeGB”: 1023, “lun”: 2, “managedDisk”: {“id”: “/subscriptions/xxxx….xxxx/resourceGroups/V-XISURG/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/testdisk2”, “storageAccountType”: “StandardSSD_LRS”}, “name”: “testdisk2”}, {“caching”: “None”, “createOption”: “Attach”, “diskSizeGB”: 1023, “lun”: 1, “managedDisk”: {“id”: “/subscriptions/xxxx…xxxx/resourceGroups/V-XISURG/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/testdisk3”, “storageAccountType”: “StandardSSD_LRS”}, “name”: “testdisk3”}]

imageReference

dictionary

Specifies information about the image to use.

Returned: always

Sample: {“offer”: “UbuntuServer”, “publisher”: “Canonical”, “sku”: “18.04-LTS”, “version”: “latest”}

osDisk

dictionary

Specifies information about the operating system disk used by the virtual machine.

Returned: always

Sample: {“caching”: “ReadWrite”, “createOption”: “FromImage”, “diskSizeGB”: 30, “managedDisk”: {“id”: “/subscriptions/xxx…xxxx/resourceGroups/v-xisuRG/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/myVM_disk1_xxx”, “storageAccountType”: “Premium_LRS”}, “name”: “myVM_disk1_xxx”, “osType”: “Linux”}

vmID

string

Specifies the VM unique ID which is a 128-bits identifier that is encoded and stored in all Azure laaS VMs SMBIOS.

It can be read using platform BIOS commands.

Returned: always

Sample: “eb86d9bb-6725-4787-a487-2e497d5b340c”

type

string

The type of identity used for the virtual machine.

Returned: always

Sample: “Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines”

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 2.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Zim Kalinowski (@zikalino)