community.general.facter module – Runs the discovery program facter
on the remote system
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.0).
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.general
.
You need further requirements to be able to use this module,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.facter
.
Synopsis
Runs the
facter
discovery program (https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter) on the remote system, returning JSON data that can be useful for inventory purposes.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
facter
ruby-json
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
---|---|
Specifies arguments for facter. |
Attributes
Attribute |
Support |
Description |
---|---|---|
Support: none |
Can run in |
|
Support: none |
Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in |
Examples
# Example command-line invocation
# ansible www.example.net -m facter
- name: Execute facter no arguments
community.general.facter:
- name: Execute facter with arguments
community.general.facter:
arguments:
- -p
- system_uptime
- timezone
- is_virtual