Ansible role facts

Place custom facts for Ansible on a system.

GitHub	GitLab	Downloads	Version

Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/default/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: true

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.facts
      facts:
        - key: datacenter
          value: Amsterdam
        - key: availability_zone
          value: west

The machine needs to be prepared. In CI this is done using molecule/default/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: false

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

The default values for the variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for facts

# You can pass key value pair to this role, which will place the facts in
# `custom.fact`. For example this dictionary:

# facts:
#   - key: datacenter
#     value: Amsterdam
#   - key: availability_zone
#     value: west
#
# Would make these facts available:
#
#         "ansible_local": {
#             "custom": {
#                 "availability_zone": "west",
#                 "datacenter": "Amsterdam"
#             }
#         },

facts: []

Requirements

• pip packages listed in requirements.txt.

State of used roles

The following roles are used to prepare a system. You can prepare your system in another way.

Requirement	GitHub	GitLab
robertdebock.bootstrap

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

container	tags
Alpine	all
Amazon	Candidate
EL	9
Debian	all
Fedora	all
Ubuntu	all

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.12, tests have been done to:

• The previous version.
• The current version.
• The development version.

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub.

License

Apache-2.0.

Author Information

robertdebock

Please consider sponsoring me.