ansible.builtin.chef_databag (v2.9.27) — lookup

Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.9.27

Description

This is a lookup plugin to provide access to chef data bags using the pychef package. It interfaces with the chef server api using the same methods to find a knife or chef-client config file to load parameters from, starting from either the given base path or the current working directory. The lookup order mirrors the one from Chef, all folders in the base path are walked back looking for the following configuration file in order : .chef/knife.rb, ~/.chef/knife.rb, /etc/chef/client.rb

Requirements

• pychef (python library https://pychef.readthedocs.io `pip install pychef`)

Usage examples

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    - debug:
        msg: "{{ lookup('chef_databag', 'name=data_bag_name item=data_bag_item') }}"

Inputs

    
item:
    description:
    - Item to fetch
    required: true

name:
    description:
    - Name of the databag
    required: true

Outputs

_raw:
  description:
  - The value from the databag