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iam_server_certificate_facts - Retrieve the facts of a server certificate

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis

  • Retrieve the attributes of a server certificate

Aliases: iam_cert_facts

Requirements

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

  • boto
  • boto3
  • botocore
  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
aws_access_key
AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key
AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
ec2_url
Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
name
required
The name of the server certificate you are retrieving attributes for.
profile
(added in 1.6)
Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region
The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
security_token
(added in 1.6)
AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.

aliases: access_token
validate_certs
bool

(added in 1.5)
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Notes

Note

  • If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION
  • Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

Examples

# Retrieve server certificate
- iam_server_certificate_facts:
    name: production-cert
  register: server_cert

# Fail if the server certificate name was not found
- iam_server_certificate_facts:
    name: production-cert
  register: server_cert
  failed_when: "{{ server_cert.results | length == 0 }}"

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
arn
str
 success
The Amazon resource name of the server certificate

Sample:
arn:aws:iam::911277865346:server-certificate/server-cert-name
certificate_body
str
 success
The asn1der encoded PEM string

Sample:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- bunch of random data -----END CERTIFICATE-----
expiration
str
 success
The date and time this server certificate will expire, in ISO 8601 format.

Sample:
2017-06-15T12:00:00+00:00
path
str
 success
The path of the server certificate

Sample:
/
server_certificate_id
str
 success
The 21 character certificate id

Sample:
ADWAJXWTZAXIPIMQHMJPO
server_certificate_name
str
 success
The name of the server certificate

Sample:
server-cert-name
upload_date
str
 success
The date and time this server certificate was uploaded, in ISO 8601 format.

Sample:
2015-04-25T00:36:40+00:00


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

  • Allen Sanabria (@linuxdynasty)

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