ansible_os_family values

anatoly techtonik

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Dec 6, 2013, 3:46:40 AM12/6/13

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Hi,

I know ansible_os_family can be "RedHat" or "Debian", where "RedHat" includes Fedora
and "Debian" is for Ubuntu. Where to find the list of all values that "ansible_os_family"
can take? It would be awesome if every value also included most popular examples of
named families.

Serge van Ginderachter

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Dec 6, 2013, 3:58:13 AM12/6/13

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There's a list in library/system/setup

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David Karban

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Dec 6, 2013, 3:59:40 AM12/6/13

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Hi,

personally if I do not found this kind of item in documentation, I`ll look into code :). In this case, setup module.

        OS_FAMILY = dict(
            RedHat = 'RedHat', Fedora = 'RedHat', CentOS = 'RedHat', Scientific = 'RedHat',
            SLC = 'RedHat', Ascendos = 'RedHat', CloudLinux = 'RedHat', PSBM = 'RedHat',
            OracleLinux = 'RedHat', OVS = 'RedHat', OEL = 'RedHat', Amazon = 'RedHat',
            XenServer = 'RedHat', Ubuntu = 'Debian', Debian = 'Debian', SLES = 'Suse',
            SLED = 'Suse', OpenSuSE = 'Suse', SuSE = 'Suse', Gentoo = 'Gentoo',
            Archlinux = 'Archlinux', Mandriva = 'Mandrake', Mandrake = 'Mandrake',
            Solaris = 'Solaris', Nexenta = 'Solaris', OmniOS = 'Solaris', OpenIndiana = 'Solaris',
            SmartOS = 'Solaris', AIX = 'AIX', Alpine = 'Alpine', MacOSX = 'Darwin',
            FreeBSD = 'FreeBSD', HPUX = 'HP-UX'
        )

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anatoly techtonik

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Dec 6, 2013, 4:21:40 AM12/6/13

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Thanks everyone for the hints. Just for reference direct link to the sources.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/library/system/setup#L241

rrrki...@gmail.com

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How to check for sunos using sparc machines using ansible_os_family ?

Mayur Nagekar

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With ansible 2.4 round the corner, devel branch has it in build/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts.py

On Friday, December 6, 2013 at 2:16:40 PM UTC+5:30, anatoly techtonik wrote:

Noel Verhoeven

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Apr 6, 2017, 5:01:52 AM4/6/17

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Funny how I have "windows" in my OS_family variable, but it is not member of this dict. Are there 2 separate instances of this in the code, one for linux and one for windows hosts?

Matt Davis

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Apr 6, 2017, 2:23:13 PM4/6/17

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The Windows setup module is a completely separate thing (written in Powershell)

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CJ Harries

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Oct 28, 2017, 11:16:30 PM10/28/17

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For anyone stumbling on this now, the values have been moved to this file (module_utils/facts/system/distribution.py). I’ve run into this thread twice looking for that and should have updated it the first time I found the moved file. Some useful lines:

Aidan Feldman

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Dec 27, 2017, 4:49:13 PM12/27/17

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Submitted a pull request to document the possible values: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/34263

Arden Shackelford

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Aug 20, 2018, 11:28:57 AM8/20/18

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You could also reference their documentation.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_conditionals.html#id18