gathering own "facts" in Ansible

1. Copy localsetup to your ansible library/ directory

2. Invoke localsetup as module in playbook

    ---
    - hosts: 127.0.0.1
      connection: local
      tasks:
      - name: Gather our facts
        action: localsetup keytab=/etc/krb5.keytab
      - name: Demotemplate
        action: template src=info.in dest=/tmp/info.txt
   

3. Use variables

Files

• info.in: Template source.
• info.txt: Output produced by template
• /etc/sysinfo: provisioned file