Community.General

Collection version 5.0.2

Description

Author:

• Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)

Issue Tracker Repository (Sources) Submit a bug report Request a feature

Communication

• Matrix room #users:ansible.im: General usage and support questions.

• IRC channel #ansible (Libera network): General usage and support questions.

• Mailing list: Ansible Project List. (Subscribe)

Guides

• community.general Filter Guide
• community.general Test (Plugin) Guide

Plugin Index

These are the plugins in the community.general collection:

Become Plugins

• doas become – Do As user

• dzdo become – Centrify’s Direct Authorize

• ksu become – Kerberos substitute user

• machinectl become – Systemd’s machinectl privilege escalation

• pbrun become – PowerBroker run

• pfexec become – profile based execution

• pmrun become – Privilege Manager run

• sesu become – CA Privileged Access Manager

• sudosu become – Run tasks using sudo su -

Cache Plugins

• memcached cache – Use memcached DB for cache

• pickle cache – Pickle formatted files.

• redis cache – Use Redis DB for cache

• yaml cache – YAML formatted files.

Callback Plugins

• cgroup_memory_recap callback – Profiles maximum memory usage of tasks and full execution using cgroups

• context_demo callback – demo callback that adds play/task context

• counter_enabled callback – adds counters to the output items (tasks and hosts/task)

• dense callback – minimal stdout output

• diy callback – Customize the output

• elastic callback – Create distributed traces for each Ansible task in Elastic APM

• hipchat callback – post task events to hipchat

• jabber callback – post task events to a jabber server

• log_plays callback – write playbook output to log file

• loganalytics callback – Posts task results to Azure Log Analytics

• logdna callback – Sends playbook logs to LogDNA

• logentries callback – Sends events to Logentries

• logstash callback – Sends events to Logstash

• mail callback – Sends failure events via email

• nrdp callback – Post task results to a Nagios server through nrdp

• null callback – Don’t display stuff to screen

• opentelemetry callback – Create distributed traces with OpenTelemetry

• say callback – notify using software speech synthesizer

• selective callback – only print certain tasks

• slack callback – Sends play events to a Slack channel

• splunk callback – Sends task result events to Splunk HTTP Event Collector

• sumologic callback – Sends task result events to Sumologic

• syslog_json callback – sends JSON events to syslog

• unixy callback – condensed Ansible output

• yaml callback – yaml-ized Ansible screen output

Connection Plugins

• chroot connection – Interact with local chroot

• funcd connection – Use funcd to connect to target

• iocage connection – Run tasks in iocage jails

• jail connection – Run tasks in jails

• lxc connection – Run tasks in lxc containers via lxc python library

• lxd connection – Run tasks in lxc containers via lxc CLI

• qubes connection – Interact with an existing QubesOS AppVM

• saltstack connection – Allow ansible to piggyback on salt minions

• zone connection – Run tasks in a zone instance

Inventory Plugins

• cobbler inventory – Cobbler inventory source

• gitlab_runners inventory – Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for GitLab runners.

• icinga2 inventory – Icinga2 inventory source

• linode inventory – Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for Linode.

• lxd inventory – Returns Ansible inventory from lxd host

• nmap inventory – Uses nmap to find hosts to target

• online inventory – Scaleway (previously Online SAS or Online.net) inventory source

• opennebula inventory – OpenNebula inventory source

• proxmox inventory – Proxmox inventory source

• scaleway inventory – Scaleway inventory source

• stackpath_compute inventory – StackPath Edge Computing inventory source

• virtualbox inventory – virtualbox inventory source

• xen_orchestra inventory – Xen Orchestra inventory source

Lookup Plugins

• cartesian lookup – returns the cartesian product of lists

• chef_databag lookup – fetches data from a Chef Databag

• collection_version lookup – Retrieves the version of an installed collection

• consul_kv lookup – Fetch metadata from a Consul key value store.

• credstash lookup – retrieve secrets from Credstash on AWS

• cyberarkpassword lookup – get secrets from CyberArk AIM

• dependent lookup – Composes a list with nested elements of other lists or dicts which can depend on previous loop variables

• dig lookup – query DNS using the dnspython library

• dnstxt lookup – query a domain(s)’s DNS txt fields

• dsv lookup – Get secrets from Thycotic DevOps Secrets Vault

• etcd lookup – get info from an etcd server

• etcd3 lookup – Get key values from etcd3 server

• filetree lookup – recursively match all files in a directory tree

• flattened lookup – return single list completely flattened

• hiera lookup – get info from hiera data

• keyring lookup – grab secrets from the OS keyring

• lastpass lookup – fetch data from lastpass

• lmdb_kv lookup – fetch data from LMDB

• manifold lookup – get credentials from Manifold.co

• onepassword lookup – fetch field values from 1Password

• onepassword_raw lookup – fetch an entire item from 1Password

• passwordstore lookup – manage passwords with passwordstore.org’s pass utility

• random_pet lookup – Generates random pet names

• random_string lookup – Generates random string

• random_words lookup – Return a number of random words

• redis lookup – fetch data from Redis

• revbitspss lookup – Get secrets from RevBits PAM server

• shelvefile lookup – read keys from Python shelve file

• tss lookup – Get secrets from Thycotic Secret Server

See also

List of collections with docs hosted here.