community.general.chef_databag – fetches data from a Chef Databag

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• This is a lookup plugin to provide access to chef data bags using the pychef package. It interfaces with the chef server api using the same methods to find a knife or chef-client config file to load parameters from, starting from either the given base path or the current working directory. The lookup order mirrors the one from Chef, all folders in the base path are walked back looking for the following configuration file in order : .chef/knife.rb, ~/.chef/knife.rb, /etc/chef/client.rb

Requirements

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

• pychef (python library https://pychef.readthedocs.io pip install pychef)

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
item string / required			Item to fetch
name string / required			Name of the databag

Examples

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.chef_databag', 'name=data_bag_name item=data_bag_item') }}"

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
_raw list / elements=dictionary	success	The value from the databag.

Authors

• Unknown (!UNKNOWN)