Hi, this is a topic for ansible-devel, can you please ask over there? Thanks!
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Mark Olliver < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e064db44-10e5-41cb-a391-91be55786a86%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e064db44-10e5-41cb-a391-91be55786a86%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgyZvTpOLwp2hTnv6pN5SOz%3D9DbPjihiqj%2BQrvjB9KtBHg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
