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Merge pull request #9548 from bcoca/local_facts_noyaml

removed YAML as documented local facts format
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Brian Coca 2014-11-12 17:57:24 -05:00
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@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ For instance, what if you want users to be able to control some aspect about how
.. note:: Perhaps "local facts" is a bit of a misnomer, it means "locally supplied user values" as opposed to "centrally supplied user values", or what facts are -- "locally dynamically determined values".
If a remotely managed system has an "/etc/ansible/facts.d" directory, any files in this directory
ending in ".fact", can be YAML, JSON, INI, or executable files returning JSON, and these can supply local facts in Ansible.
ending in ".fact", can be JSON, INI, or executable files returning JSON, and these can supply local facts in Ansible.
For instance assume a /etc/ansible/facts.d/preferences.fact::
@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ And you will see the following fact added::
"ansible_local": {
"preferences": {
"general": {
"asdf" : "1",
"asdf" : "1",
"bar" : "2"
}
}
@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ can allow that fact to be used during that particular play. Otherwise, it will
Here is an example of what that might look like::
- hosts: webservers
tasks:
tasks:
- name: create directory for ansible custom facts
file: state=directory recurse=yes path=/etc/ansible/facts.d
- name: install custom impi fact