community.general.facter_facts (8.5.0) — module

Install collection

Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==8.5.0

Add to requirements.yml

  collections:
    - name: community.general
      version: 8.5.0

Description

Runs the C(facter) discovery program (U(https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter)) on the remote system, returning Ansible facts from the JSON data that can be useful for inventory purposes.

Requirements

• facter
• ruby-json

Usage examples

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- name: Execute facter no arguments
  community.general.facter_facts:

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- name: Execute facter with arguments
  community.general.facter_facts:
    arguments:
        - -p
        - system_uptime
        - timezone
        - is_virtual

Inputs

    
arguments:
    description:
    - Specifies arguments for facter.
    elements: str
    type: list

Outputs

ansible_facts:
  contains:
    facter:
      description: Dictionary containing facts discovered in the remote system.
      returned: always
      type: dict
  description: Dictionary with one key C(facter).
  returned: always
  type: dict