Storing facts on remote hosts

[Volodymyr Linevych]

Hello, Ansible users!

I am trying to make a group of variables persistent on hosts, preferably as a text file.

I was using puppet+facter before and now I'm looking for a native way to accomplish this with ansible.

My task:

1. Facts are being initialised only once, when host is provisioned
2. Facts are stored as a text file on remote host and are reusable from any other scripts on that host
3. Facts are automatically read into ansible vars from file once ansible connects to a host

At this moment I've tried following:

• 'include_vars' works only with local file
  
• 'set_fact' facts are not persistent
• fact caching saves facts on local machine
• 'facter' module cannot store facts on host, it can only retrieve existing
  

It looks like that my task can be accomplished with a custom inventory script, but before I spend a week on this, I'm asking here.

Thanks!

[Matt Martz]

/etc/ansible/facts.d on the target nodes might be what you are looking for.

See http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#local-facts-facts-d

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