community.general.etcd – get info from an etcd server

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.etcd.

Synopsis

  • Retrieves data from an etcd server

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
_terms
list / elements=string / required
the list of keys to lookup on the etcd server
url
string
Default:
"http://127.0.0.1:4001"
env:ANSIBLE_ETCD_URL
Environment variable with the url for the etcd server
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
toggle checking that the ssl certificates are valid, you normally only want to turn this off with self-signed certs.
version
string
Default:
"v1"
env:ANSIBLE_ETCD_VERSION
Environment variable with the etcd protocol version

Examples

- name: "a value from a locally running etcd"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.etcd', 'foo/bar') }}"

- name: "values from multiple folders on a locally running etcd"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.etcd', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz') }}"

- name: "since Ansible 2.5 you can set server options inline"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.etcd', 'foo', version='v2', url='http://192.168.0.27:4001') }}"

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
_raw
list / elements=string
success
list of values associated with input keys


Authors

  • Jan-Piet Mens (@jpmens)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/etcd_lookup.html