new module to gather facts from yml file

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Hi,
I’ve written a module to gather facts and add them to ansible to consume later on. The module requires specifying a yaml file to get facts from and optionally a sub-dictionary in ansible_facts to add those (default value is ‘yaml_extra’).
The way it has been used is to parse data from apps to be later used to configure external scripts and form templates.

Is there a value for someone else?
Thanks,
Yegor

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Here’s a new feature in 1.3 you may like.

http://jpmens.net/2013/06/17/a-very-welcome-addition-to-ansible-s-setup-module/

If you mean running it from local_action, that feels a lot like “host_vars/” and “group_vars/” to me, which is already built in.

I’d be curious in hearing more about the use case.

Thanks!