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community.kubernetes.k8s_info – Describe Kubernetes (K8s) objects

Note

This plugin is part of the community.kubernetes collection (version 1.2.1).

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.kubernetes.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.kubernetes.k8s_info.

Synopsis

  • Use the OpenShift Python client to perform read operations on K8s objects.
  • Access to the full range of K8s APIs.
  • Authenticate using either a config file, certificates, password or token.
  • Supports check mode.
  • This module was called k8s_facts before Ansible 2.9. The usage did not change.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 2.7
  • openshift >= 0.6
  • PyYAML >= 3.11

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_key
string
Token used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_API_KEY environment variable.
api_version
string
Default:
"v1"
Use to specify the API version.
Use to create, delete, or discover an object without providing a full resource definition.
Use in conjunction with kind, name, and namespace to identify a specific object.
If resource definition is provided, the apiVersion value from the resource_definition will override this option.

aliases: api, version
ca_cert
path
Path to a CA certificate used to authenticate with the API. The full certificate chain must be provided to avoid certificate validation errors. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_SSL_CA_CERT environment variable.

aliases: ssl_ca_cert
client_cert
path
Path to a certificate used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CERT_FILE environment variable.

aliases: cert_file
client_key
path
Path to a key file used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KEY_FILE environment variable.

aliases: key_file
context
string
The name of a context found in the config file. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CONTEXT environment variable.
field_selectors
list / elements=string
List of field selectors to use to filter results
host
string
Provide a URL for accessing the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_HOST environment variable.
kind
string / required
Use to specify an object model.
Use to create, delete, or discover an object without providing a full resource definition.
Use in conjunction with api_version, name, and namespace to identify a specific object.
If resource definition is provided, the kind value from the resource_definition will override this option.
kubeconfig
path
Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the openshift client will attempt to load the default configuration file from ~/.kube/config.json. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.
label_selectors
list / elements=string
List of label selectors to use to filter results
name
string
Use to specify an object name.
Use to create, delete, or discover an object without providing a full resource definition.
Use in conjunction with api_version, kind and namespace to identify a specific object.
If resource definition is provided, the metadata.name value from the resource_definition will override this option.
namespace
string
Use to specify an object namespace.
Useful when creating, deleting, or discovering an object without providing a full resource definition.
Use in conjunction with api_version, kind, and name to identify a specific object.
If resource definition is provided, the metadata.namespace value from the resource_definition will override this option.
password
string
Provide a password for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PASSWORD environment variable.
Please read the description of the username option for a discussion of when this option is applicable.
persist_config
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether or not to save the kube config refresh tokens. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PERSIST_CONFIG environment variable.
When the k8s context is using a user credentials with refresh tokens (like oidc or gke/gcloud auth), the token is refreshed by the k8s python client library but not saved by default. So the old refresh token can expire and the next auth might fail. Setting this flag to true will tell the k8s python client to save the new refresh token to the kube config file.
Default to false.
Please note that the current version of the k8s python client library does not support setting this flag to True yet.
The fix for this k8s python library is here: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python-base/pull/169
proxy
string
The URL of an HTTP proxy to use for the connection. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY environment variable.
Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. HTTP_PROXY).
username
string
Provide a username for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_USERNAME environment variable.
Please note that this only works with clusters configured to use HTTP Basic Auth. If your cluster has a different form of authentication (e.g. OAuth2 in OpenShift), this option will not work as expected and you should look into the k8s_auth module, as that might do what you need.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether or not to verify the API server's SSL certificates. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL environment variable.

aliases: verify_ssl
wait
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Whether to wait for certain resource kinds to end up in the desired state.
By default the module exits once Kubernetes has received the request.
Implemented for state=present for Deployment, DaemonSet and Pod, and for state=absent for all resource kinds.
For resource kinds without an implementation, wait returns immediately unless wait_condition is set.
wait_condition
dictionary
Specifies a custom condition on the status to wait for.
Ignored if wait is not set or is set to False.
reason
string
The value of the reason field in your desired condition
For example, if a Deployment is paused, The Progressing type will have the DeploymentPaused reason.
The possible reasons in a condition are specific to each resource type in Kubernetes.
See the API documentation of the status field for a given resource to see possible choices.
status
string
    Choices:
  • True ←
  • False
  • Unknown
The value of the status field in your desired condition.
For example, if a Deployment is paused, the Progressing type will have the Unknown status.
type
string
The type of condition to wait for.
For example, the Pod resource will set the Ready condition (among others).
Required if you are specifying a wait_condition.
If left empty, the wait_condition field will be ignored.
The possible types for a condition are specific to each resource type in Kubernetes.
See the API documentation of the status field for a given resource to see possible choices.
wait_sleep
integer
Default:
5
Number of seconds to sleep between checks.
wait_timeout
integer
Default:
120
How long in seconds to wait for the resource to end up in the desired state.
Ignored if wait is not set.

Notes

Note

  • The OpenShift Python client wraps the K8s Python client, providing full access to all of the APIS and models available on both platforms. For API version details and additional information visit https://github.com/openshift/openshift-restclient-python
  • To avoid SSL certificate validation errors when validate_certs is True, the full certificate chain for the API server must be provided via ca_cert or in the kubeconfig file.

Examples

- name: Get an existing Service object
  community.kubernetes.k8s_info:
    api_version: v1
    kind: Service
    name: web
    namespace: testing
  register: web_service

- name: Get a list of all service objects
  community.kubernetes.k8s_info:
    api_version: v1
    kind: Service
    namespace: testing
  register: service_list

- name: Get a list of all pods from any namespace
  community.kubernetes.k8s_info:
    kind: Pod
  register: pod_list

- name: Search for all Pods labelled app=web
  community.kubernetes.k8s_info:
    kind: Pod
    label_selectors:
      - app = web
      - tier in (dev, test)

- name: Using vars while using label_selectors
  community.kubernetes.k8s_info:
    kind: Pod
    label_selectors:
      - "app = {{ app_label_web }}"
  vars:
    app_label_web: web

- name: Search for all running pods
  community.kubernetes.k8s_info:
    kind: Pod
    field_selectors:
      - status.phase=Running

- name: List custom objects created using CRD
  community.kubernetes.k8s_info:
    kind: MyCustomObject
    api_version: "stable.example.com/v1"

- name: Wait till the Object is created
  community.kubernetes.k8s_info:
    kind: Pod
    wait: yes
    name: pod-not-yet-created
    namespace: default
    wait_sleep: 10
    wait_timeout: 360

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
api_found
boolean
always
Whether the specified api_version and kind were successfully mapped to an existing API on the targeted cluster.
Version added 1.2.0.
resources
complex
success
The object(s) that exists
api_version
string
success
The versioned schema of this representation of an object.
kind
string
success
Represents the REST resource this object represents.
metadata
dictionary
success
Standard object metadata. Includes name, namespace, annotations, labels, etc.
spec
dictionary
success
Specific attributes of the object. Will vary based on the api_version and kind.
status
dictionary
success
Current status details for the object.


Authors

  • Will Thames (@willthames)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/kubernetes/k8s_info_module.html