cloudfront_info – Obtain facts about an AWS CloudFront distribution¶

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Synopsis ¶

Gets information about an AWS CloudFront distribution
This module was called cloudfront_facts before Ansible 2.9, returning ansible_facts. Note that the cloudfront_info module no longer returns ansible_facts!

Aliases: cloudfront_facts

Requirements ¶

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

boto
boto3 >= 1.0.0
python >= 2.6

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
all_lists boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get all cloudfront lists that do not require parameters.
aws_access_key string		AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key string		AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
debug_botocore_endpoint_logs boolean added in 2.8	Choices: no ← yes	Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.
distribution boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get information about a distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
distribution_config boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get the configuration information about a distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
distribution_id -		The id of the CloudFront distribution. Used with distribution, distribution_config, invalidation, streaming_distribution, streaming_distribution_config, list_invalidations.
domain_name_alias -		Can be used instead of distribution_id - uses the aliased CNAME for the cloudfront distribution to get the distribution id where required.
ec2_url string		Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
invalidation boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get information about an invalidation. Requires invalidation_id to be specified.
invalidation_id -		The id of the invalidation to get information about. Used with invalidation.
list_distributions boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get a list of cloudfront distributions.
list_distributions_by_web_acl_id boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get a list of distributions using web acl id as a filter. Requires web_acl_id to be set.
list_invalidations boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get a list of invalidations. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
list_origin_access_identities boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get a list of cloudfront origin access identities. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be set.
list_streaming_distributions boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get a list of streaming distributions.
origin_access_identity boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get information about an origin access identity. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be specified.
origin_access_identity_config boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get the configuration information about an origin access identity. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be specified.
origin_access_identity_id -		The id of the cloudfront origin access identity to get information about.
profile string		Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region string		The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
security_token string		AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used. aliases: access_token
streaming_distribution boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get information about a specified RTMP distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
streaming_distribution_config boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Get the configuration information about a specified RTMP distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
summary boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Returns a summary of all distributions, streaming distributions and origin_access_identities. This is the default behaviour if no option is selected.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes ←	When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.
web_acl_id -		Used with list_distributions_by_web_acl_id.

Notes ¶

Note

If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION
Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

Examples ¶

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

# Get a summary of distributions
- cloudfront_info:
    summary: true
  register: result

# Get information about a distribution
- cloudfront_info:
    distribution: true
    distribution_id: my-cloudfront-distribution-id
  register: result_did
- debug:
    msg: "{{ result_did['cloudfront']['my-cloudfront-distribution-id'] }}"

# Get information about a distribution using the CNAME of the cloudfront distribution.
- cloudfront_info:
    distribution: true
    domain_name_alias: www.my-website.com
  register: result_website
- debug:
    msg: "{{ result_website['cloudfront']['www.my-website.com'] }}"

# When the module is called as cloudfront_facts, return values are published
# in ansible_facts['cloudfront'][<id>] and can be used as follows.
# Note that this is deprecated and will stop working in Ansible 2.13.
- cloudfront_facts:
    distribution: true
    distribution_id: my-cloudfront-distribution-id
- debug:
    msg: "{{ ansible_facts['cloudfront']['my-cloudfront-distribution-id'] }}"

- cloudfront_facts:
    distribution: true
    domain_name_alias: www.my-website.com
- debug:
    msg: "{{ ansible_facts['cloudfront']['www.my-website.com'] }}"

# Get all information about an invalidation for a distribution.
- cloudfront_facts:
    invalidation: true
    distribution_id: my-cloudfront-distribution-id
    invalidation_id: my-cloudfront-invalidation-id

# Get all information about a cloudfront origin access identity.
- cloudfront_facts:
    origin_access_identity: true
    origin_access_identity_id: my-cloudfront-origin-access-identity-id

# Get all information about lists not requiring parameters (ie. list_origin_access_identities, list_distributions, list_streaming_distributions)
- cloudfront_facts:
    origin_access_identity: true
    origin_access_identity_id: my-cloudfront-origin-access-identity-id

# Get all information about lists not requiring parameters (ie. list_origin_access_identities, list_distributions, list_streaming_distributions)
- cloudfront_facts:
    all_lists: true

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
distribution dictionary	only if distribution is true	Facts about a cloudfront distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be set.
distribution_config dictionary	only if distribution_config is true	Facts about a cloudfront distribution's config. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
invalidation dictionary	only if invalidation is true	Describes the invalidation information for the distribution. Requires invalidation_id to be specified and either distribution_id or domain_name_alias.
origin_access_identity dictionary	only if origin_access_identity is true	Describes the origin access identity information. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be set.
origin_access_identity_configuration dictionary	only if origin_access_identity_configuration is true	Describes the origin access identity information configuration information. Requires origin_access_identity_id to be set.
result dictionary	always	Result dict not nested under the cloudfront id to access results of module without the knowledge of that id as figuring out the DistributionId is usually the reason one uses this module in the first place.
streaming_distribution dictionary	only if streaming_distribution is true	Describes the streaming information for the distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
streaming_distribution_config dictionary	only if streaming_distribution_config is true	Describes the streaming configuration information for the distribution. Requires distribution_id or domain_name_alias to be specified.
summary dictionary	as default or if summary is true	Gives a summary of distributions, streaming distributions and origin access identities.

Status ¶

This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors¶

Willem van Ketwich (@wilvk)

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cloudfront_info – Obtain facts about an AWS CloudFront distribution¶

Synopsis¶

Requirements¶

Parameters¶

Notes¶

Examples¶

Return Values¶

Status¶