cloudfront_facts - Obtain facts about an AWS CloudFront distribution

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Gets information about an AWS CloudFront distribution

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • boto
  • boto3 >= 1.0.0
  • python >= 2.6

Options

parameter required default choices comments
all_lists
no
Get all cloudfront lists that do not require parameters.
aws_access_key
no
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
no
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
distribution
no
Get information about a distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
distribution_config
no
Get the configuration information about a distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
distribution_id
no
The id of the CloudFront distribution. Used with distribution, distribution_config, invalidation, streaming_distribution, streaming_distribution_config, list_invalidations.
domain_name_alias
no
Can be used instead of distribution_id - uses the aliased CNAME for the cloudfront distribution to get the distribution id where required.
ec2_url
no
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.
invalidation
no
Get information about an invalidation. Requires invalidation_id to be specified.
invalidation_id
no
The id of the invalidation to get information about. Used with invalidation.
list_distributions
no
Get a list of cloudfront distributions.
list_distributions_by_web_acl_id
no
Get a list of distributions using web acl id as a filter. Requires web_acl_id to be set.
list_invalidations
no
Get a list of invalidations. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
list_origin_access_identities
no
Get a list of cloudfront origin access identities. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be set.
list_streaming_distributions
no
Get a list of streaming distributions.
origin_access_identity
no
Get information about an origin access identity. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be specified.
origin_access_identity_config
no
Get the configuration information about an origin access identity. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be specified.
origin_access_identity_id
no
The id of the cloudfront origin access identity to get information about.
profile
(added in 1.6)
no
Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region
no
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)
no
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
streaming_distribution
no
Get information about a specified RTMP distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
streaming_distribution_configuration
no
Get the configuration information about a specified RTMP distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
summary
no
Returns a summary of all distributions, streaming distributions and origin_access_identities. This is the default behaviour if no option is selected.
validate_certs
(added in 1.5)
no yes
  • yes
  • no
When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.
web_acl_id
no
Used with list_distributions_by_web_acl_id.

Examples

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

# Get a summary of distributions
- cloudfront_facts:
    summary: true

# Get information about a distribution
- cloudfront_facts:
    distribution: true
    distribution_id: my-cloudfront-distribution-id

# Get information about a distribution using the CNAME of the cloudfront distribution.
- cloudfront_facts:
    distribution: true
    domain_name_alias: www.my-website.com

# Facts are published in ansible_facts['cloudfront'][<distribution_name>]
- debug:
    msg: "{{ ansible_facts['cloudfront']['my-cloudfront-distribution-id'] }}"

- debug:
    msg: "{{ ansible_facts['cloudfront']['www.my-website.com'] }}"

# Get all information about an invalidation for a distribution.
- cloudfront_facts:
    invalidation: true
    distribution_id: my-cloudfront-distribution-id
    invalidation_id: my-cloudfront-invalidation-id

# Get all information about a cloudfront origin access identity.
- cloudfront_facts:
    origin_access_identity: true
    origin_access_identity_id: my-cloudfront-origin-access-identity-id

# Get all information about lists not requiring parameters (ie. list_origin_access_identities, list_distributions, list_streaming_distributions)
- cloudfront_facts:
    origin_access_identity: true
    origin_access_identity_id: my-cloudfront-origin-access-identity-id

# Get all information about lists not requiring parameters (ie. list_origin_access_identities, list_distributions, list_streaming_distributions)
- cloudfront_facts:
    all_lists: true

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
distribution
Facts about a cloudfront distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be set.
only if distribution is true dict
distribution_config
Facts about a cloudfront distribution's config. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
only if I(distribution_config) is true dict
invalidation
Describes the invalidation information for the distribution. Requires invalidation_id to be specified and either distribution_id or domain_name_alias.
only if invalidation is true dict
origin_access_identity
Describes the origin access identity information. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be set.
only if I(origin_access_identity) is true dict
origin_access_identity_configuration
Describes the origin access identity information configuration information. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be set.
only if I(origin_access_identity_configuration) is true dict
streaming_distribution
Describes the streaming information for the distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
only if I(streaming_distribution) is true dict
streaming_distribution_configuration
Describes the streaming configuration information for the distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
only if I(streaming_distribution_configuration) is true dict
summary
Gives a summary of distributions, streaming distributions and origin access identities.
as default or if summary is true dict

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

Status

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

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