How can I detect Atomic version of CentOS with Ansible facts (setup) mechanism?

[Stéphane Klein]

Hi,

I have CentOS Atomic Host (http://www.projectatomic.io/).

When I execute:

ansible -m setup my_atomic_os

I have:

"ansible_os_family": "RedHat"

I see nowhere that this is a Atomic version of RedHat / CentOS (on Atomic host I can't install package…).

How can I detect this with facts mechanism?

I need to create an Ansible issue on GitHub about this feature request?

Best regards,
Stéphane

[Dick Davies]

Start with: how would I tell the host is an Atomic host without Ansible?

Then you can combine a command: with a register:clause,
and run set_fact with a when: .

For the effort, I'd just add a custom fact. But without knowing how to tell,
that's tricky :)

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[Stéphane Klein]

Le lundi 19 juin 2017 18:16:37 UTC+2, Dick Davies a écrit :

Start with: how would I tell the host is an Atomic host without Ansible?

Then you can combine a command: with a register:clause,
and run set_fact with a when: .

For the effort, I'd just add a custom fact. But without knowing how to tell,
that's tricky :)

Thanks

It is possible to override ansible_os_family fact?

I try that:

[all]
atomic-test-node.example.com ansible_user=root ansible_os_family=atomic
 
But it don't work :(

[jean...@lenhof.eu.org]

hi,

There's custom local fact available for this, no ?
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#local-facts-facts-d

Just put some lines of python program, make the output look JSON and voilà.

Regards,

[Stéphane Klein]

2017-06-20 16:46 GMT+02:00 <jean...@lenhof.eu.org>:

20 juin 2017 11:26 "Stéphane Klein" <klein.s...@gmail.com> a écrit:

Le lundi 19 juin 2017 18:16:37 UTC+2, Dick Davies a écrit :

Start with: how would I tell the host is an Atomic host without Ansible?

Then you can combine a command: with a register:clause,
and run set_fact with a when: .

For the effort, I'd just add a custom fact. But without knowing how to tell,
that's tricky :)

Thanks

It is possible to override ansible_os_family fact?

I try that:

[all]
atomic-test-node.example.com ansible_user=root ansible_os_family=atomic

But it don't work :(

hi,

There's custom local fact available for this, no ?
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#local-facts-facts-d

This don't override default Ansible facts.