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# cloudfront_info – Obtain facts about an AWS CloudFront distribution

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## 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 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region 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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