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ui: a compact host overview when facts are available (cpu, distro, disk/memory usage, load avg, etc.)
What is the idea ?
Filing this under nice to have because ara records host facts when Ansible gathers them so they are available but we are not doing much right now other than pretty printing them:
It's still better than nothing but there could -- perhaps -- be some sort of compact summary of the node if the facts are available. You can see an example of all the facts available on the demo: https://demo.recordsansible.org/hosts/11031.html
For example:
- We have a bunch of useful variables like
ansible_distribution
(_version
),ansible_kernel
,ansible_processor
,ansible_python
, etc. - There's network information available with facts like
ansible_default_ipv4
and for specific network interfaces (likeansible_br0
) - With
ansible_memory_mb
we know the amount of memory, how much is used, how much is free - With
ansible_mount
we know about block devices, partitions, filesystems and disk usage - With
ansible_loadavg
(starting in ansible-core 2.14) we know, well, the load avg.
The facts are not always gathered and even if they are, the ones we would use could be filtered out, so the implementation should be tolerant to missing facts or none at all.
It's just a nice to have when facts are available ? ¯\(ツ)/¯