community.general.rax_facts – Gather facts for Rackspace Cloud Servers

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

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

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples

Synopsis

Gather facts for Rackspace Cloud Servers.

Requirements

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

python >= 2.6
pyrax

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
address string		Server IP address to retrieve facts for, will match any IP assigned to the server
api_key string		Rackspace API key, overrides credentials. aliases: password
auth_endpoint string		The URI of the authentication service. If not specified will be set to https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/
credentials path		File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided. aliases: creds_file
env string		Environment as configured in ~/.pyrax.cfg, see https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration.
id string		Server ID to retrieve facts for
identity_type string	Default: "rackspace"	Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone.
name string		Server name to retrieve facts for
region string		Region to create an instance in.
tenant_id string		The tenant ID used for authentication.
tenant_name string		The tenant name used for authentication.
username string		Rackspace username, overrides credentials.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes	Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints. aliases: verify_ssl

Notes

Note

The following environment variables can be used, RAX_USERNAME, RAX_API_KEY, RAX_CREDS_FILE, RAX_CREDENTIALS, RAX_REGION.
RAX_CREDENTIALS and RAX_CREDS_FILE points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating
RAX_USERNAME and RAX_API_KEY obviate the use of a credentials file
RAX_REGION defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)

Examples

- name: Gather info about servers
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - name: Get facts about servers
      local_action:
        module: rax_facts
        credentials: ~/.raxpub
        name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
        region: DFW
    - name: Map some facts
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        ansible_ssh_host: "{{ rax_accessipv4 }}"

Authors

Matt Martz (@sivel)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/rax_facts_module.html