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

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.9).

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.rax_facts.

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 9.0.0

Why:

This module relies on the deprecated package pyrax.

Alternative:

Use the Openstack modules instead.

Synopsis

  • Gather facts for Rackspace Cloud Servers.

Requirements

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

  • pyrax

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

address

string

Server IP address to retrieve facts for, will match any IP assigned to the server

api_key

aliases: password

string

Rackspace API key, overrides credentials.

auth_endpoint

string

The URI of the authentication service.

If not specified will be set to https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/.

credentials

aliases: creds_file

path

File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided.

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

Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone.

Default: "rackspace"

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

aliases: verify_ssl

boolean

Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

added in community.general 3.3.0

This action does not modify state.

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

diff_mode

Support: N/A

This action does not modify state.

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

facts

Support: full

Action returns an ansible_facts dictionary that will update existing host facts.

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 }}"

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 9.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Matt Martz (@sivel)