Dustin C. Hatch
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One major weakness with Ansible's "lookup" plugins is that they are evaluated _every single time they are used_, even indirectly. This means, for example, a shell command could be run many times, potentially resulting in different values, or executing a complex calculation that always provides the same result. Ansible does not have a built-in way to cache the result of a `lookup` or `query` call, so I created this one. It's inspired by [ansible-cached-lookup][0], which didn't actually work and is apparently unmaintained. Instead of using a hard-coded file-based caching system, however, my plugin uses Ansible's configuration and plugin infrastructure to store values with any available cache plugin. Although looking up the _pyrocufflink.net_ wildcard certificate with the Kubernetes API isn't particularly expensive by itself right now, I can envision several other uses that may be. Having this plugin available could speed up future playbooks. [0]: https://pypi.org/project/ansible-cached-lookup
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522 B
INI
28 lines
522 B
INI
# vim: set ft=dosini :
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[defaults]
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inventory = hosts, hosts.pyrocufflink.yml
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callback_plugins = plugins/callback
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inventory_plugins = plugins/inventory
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lookup_plugins = plugins/lookup
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gathering = smart
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fact_caching = jsonfile
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fact_caching_connection = .fact-cache
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force_valid_group_names = ignore
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remote_tmp = /var/tmp
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[callback_ntfy]
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server = https://ntfy.pyrocufflink.blue
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[ara]
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api_client = http
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api_server = https://ara.ansible.pyrocufflink.blue
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[lookup]
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cache_plugin = jsonfile
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cache_connection = .lookup-cache
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