community.general.consul_kv module – Manipulate entries in the key/value store of a consul cluster

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

Synopsis

  • Allows the retrieval, addition, modification and deletion of key/value entries in a consul cluster via the agent. The entire contents of the record, including the indices, flags and session are returned as value.

  • If the key represents a prefix then note that when a value is removed, the existing value if any is returned as part of the results.

  • See http://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http.html#kv for more details.

Requirements

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

  • python-consul

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

cas

string

Used when acquiring a lock with a session. If the cas is 0, then Consul will only put the key if it does not already exist. If the cas value is non-zero, then the key is only set if the index matches the ModifyIndex of that key.

flags

string

Opaque positive integer value that can be passed when setting a value.

host

string

Host of the consul agent.

Default: "localhost"

key

string / required

The key at which the value should be stored.

port

integer

The port on which the consul agent is running.

Default: 8500

recurse

boolean

If the key represents a prefix, each entry with the prefix can be retrieved by setting this to true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

retrieve

boolean

If the state is present and value is set, perform a read after setting the value and return this value.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

scheme

string

The protocol scheme on which the consul agent is running.

Default: "http"

session

string

The session that should be used to acquire or release a lock associated with a key/value pair.

state

string

The action to take with the supplied key and value. If the state is present and value is set, the key contents will be set to the value supplied and changed will be set to true only if the value was different to the current contents. If the state is present and value is not set, the existing value associated to the key will be returned. The state absent will remove the key/value pair, again changed will be set to true only if the key actually existed prior to the removal. An attempt can be made to obtain or free the lock associated with a key/value pair with the states acquire or release respectively. a valid session must be supplied to make the attempt changed will be true if the attempt is successful, false otherwise.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "acquire"

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "release"

token

string

The token key identifying an ACL rule set that controls access to the key value pair

validate_certs

boolean

Whether to verify the tls certificate of the consul agent.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

value

string

The value should be associated with the given key, required if state is present.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

# If the key does not exist, the value associated to the "data" property in `retrieved_key` will be `None`
# If the key value is empty string, `retrieved_key["data"]["Value"]` will be `None`
- name: Retrieve a value from the key/value store
  community.general.consul_kv:
    key: somekey
  register: retrieved_key

- name: Add or update the value associated with a key in the key/value store
  community.general.consul_kv:
    key: somekey
    value: somevalue

- name: Remove a key from the store
  community.general.consul_kv:
    key: somekey
    state: absent

- name: Add a node to an arbitrary group via consul inventory (see consul.ini)
  community.general.consul_kv:
    key: ansible/groups/dc1/somenode
    value: top_secret

- name: Register a key/value pair with an associated session
  community.general.consul_kv:
    key: stg/node/server_birthday
    value: 20160509
    session: "{{ sessionid }}"
    state: acquire

Authors

  • Steve Gargan (@sgargan)

  • Colin Nolan (@colin-nolan)