community.general.rax_facts (6.6.8) — module

Install collection

Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==6.6.8

Add to requirements.yml

  collections:
    - name: community.general
      version: 6.6.8

Description

Gather facts for Rackspace Cloud Servers.

This module relies on the C(pyrax) package which is deprecated in favour of using Openstack API.

Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0.

Requirements

• python >= 2.6
• pyrax

Usage examples

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- 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 }}"

Inputs

    
id:
    description:
    - Server ID to retrieve facts for
    type: str

env:
    description:
    - Environment as configured in I(~/.pyrax.cfg), see U(https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration).
    type: str

name:
    description:
    - Server name to retrieve facts for
    type: str

region:
    description:
    - Region to create an instance in.
    type: str

address:
    description:
    - Server IP address to retrieve facts for, will match any IP assigned to the server
    type: str

api_key:
    aliases:
    - password
    description:
    - Rackspace API key, overrides I(credentials).
    type: str

username:
    description:
    - Rackspace username, overrides I(credentials).
    type: str

tenant_id:
    description:
    - The tenant ID used for authentication.
    type: str

credentials:
    aliases:
    - creds_file
    description:
    - File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if I(api_key) and I(username)
      are provided.
    type: path

tenant_name:
    description:
    - The tenant name used for authentication.
    type: str

auth_endpoint:
    description:
    - The URI of the authentication service.
    - If not specified will be set to U(https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/)
    type: str

identity_type:
    default: rackspace
    description:
    - Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone.
    type: str

validate_certs:
    aliases:
    - verify_ssl
    description:
    - Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints.
    type: bool