Use custom fact module

[Mark Olliver]

HI,

I have written a custom fact module to retrieve metadata from Google Compute Engine hosts. The script itself works fine and returns valid json however, I can not see how I call that within Ansible so that I can make use of the fact later.

My script is get_metadata.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib2

import sys

import json

url = "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/"

headers = { "Metadata-Flavor" : "Google" }

metadata = ['dc']

content = {}

for x in range (0, len(metadata)):

    req = urllib2.Request(url + metadata[x], None, headers)

    try:

        response = urllib2.urlopen(req)

        content[metadata[x]] = (response.read())

    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:

        pass

result = '{ "ansible_facts": ' + json.dumps(content) + ' }'

print result

The ansible command I am using is: ansible-playbook -s -i plugins/inventory/gce.py -M /opt/ansible/modules/ deploy.yml

with my module stored in /opt/ansible/modules/get_metadata.py

Deploy.yml looks like this:

---

- hosts: manage-1

  tasks: []

  pre_tasks:

  - name: get meta data

  get_metadata:

  roles:

  - common

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

[Michael DeHaan]

Hi, this is a topic for ansible-devel, can you please ask over there?   Thanks!

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to ansible...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e064db44-10e5-41cb-a391-91be55786a86%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.