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community.general.etcd3 lookup – Get key values from etcd3 server

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this lookup plugin, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.etcd3.

New in community.general 0.2.0

Synopsis
Requirements
Terms
Keyword parameters
Notes
See Also
Examples
Return Value

Synopsis

Retrieves key values and/or key prefixes from etcd3 server using its native gRPC API.
Try to reuse community.general.etcd3 options for connection parameters, but add support for some ETCDCTL_* environment variables.
See https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation/op-guide for etcd overview.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.

etcd3 >= 0.10

Terms

Parameter	Comments
Terms list / elements=string / required	The list of keys (or key prefixes) to look up on the etcd3 server.

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the lookup. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following examples: lookup('community.general.etcd3', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and query('community.general.etcd3', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter	Comments
ca_cert string	Etcd3 CA authority. Configuration: Environment variable: `ETCDCTL_CACERT`
cert_cert string	Etcd3 client certificate. Configuration: Environment variable: `ETCDCTL_CERT`
cert_key string	Etcd3 client private key. Configuration: Environment variable: `ETCDCTL_KEY`
endpoints string	Counterpart of `ETCDCTL_ENDPOINTS` environment variable. Specify the etcd3 connection with an URL form, for example `https://hostname:2379`, or `<host>:<port>` form. The `host` part is overwritten by `host` option, if defined. The `port` part is overwritten by `port` option, if defined. Default: `"127.0.0.1:2379"` Configuration: Environment variable: `ETCDCTL_ENDPOINTS`
host string	Etcd3 listening client host. Takes precedence over `endpoints`.
password string	Authenticated user password. Configuration: Environment variable: `ETCDCTL_PASSWORD`
port integer	Etcd3 listening client port. Takes precedence over `endpoints`.
prefix boolean	Look for key or prefix key. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
timeout integer	Client timeout. Default: `60` Configuration: Environment variable: `ETCDCTL_DIAL_TIMEOUT`
user string	Authenticated user name. Configuration: Environment variable: `ETCDCTL_USER`

Notes

Note

When keyword and positional parameters are used together, positional parameters must be listed before keyword parameters: lookup('community.general.etcd3', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2) and query('community.general.etcd3', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2)
host and port options take precedence over (endpoints) option.
The recommended way to connect to etcd3 server is using ETCDCTL_ENDPOINT environment variable and keep endpoints, host, and port unused.

Examples

- name: "a value from a locally running etcd"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.etcd3', 'foo/bar') }}"

- name: "values from multiple folders on a locally running etcd"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.etcd3', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz') }}"

- name: "look for a key prefix"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.etcd3', '/foo/bar', prefix=True) }}"

- name: "connect to etcd3 with a client certificate"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.etcd3', 'foo/bar', cert_cert='/etc/ssl/etcd/client.pem', cert_key='/etc/ssl/etcd/client.key') }}"

Return Value

Key	Description
Return value list / elements=dictionary	List of keys and associated values. Returned: success
key string	The element’s key. Returned: success
value string	The element’s value. Returned: success

Authors

Eric Belhomme (@eric-belhomme)

Collection links

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/etcd3_lookup.html