community.general.chef_databag lookup – fetches data from a Chef Databag
Note
This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.8).
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.
You need further requirements to be able to use this lookup plugin,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.chef_databag.
Synopsis
This is a lookup plugin to provide access to chef data bags using the pychef package. It interfaces with the chef server api using the same methods to find a knife or chef-client config file to load parameters from, starting from either the given base path or the current working directory. The lookup order mirrors the one from Chef, all folders in the base path are walked back looking for the following configuration file in order : .chef/knife.rb, ~/.chef/knife.rb, /etc/chef/client.rb
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.
pychef (Python library,
pip install pychef)
Keyword parameters
This describes keyword parameters of the lookup. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following
examples: lookup('community.general.chef_databag', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and query('community.general.chef_databag', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)
Parameter |
Comments |
|---|---|
Item to fetch |
|
Name of the databag |
Examples
- ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.chef_databag', 'name=data_bag_name item=data_bag_item') }}"
Return Value
Key |
Description |
|---|---|
The value from the databag. Returned: success |