Include for showing the packages facts

[yodatak]

Ansible 2.5.0 is out and the packages facts is supported so i propose to at least explain https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/modules/package_facts_module.html

or integrate into the existing templeting or to add a new template only for demonstrate how to recover packages_facts

I use in my exemple of curl but it can be another package that is usefull.

For generate ansible output for your hosts

ansible -m setup --tree out/outsetup all 
ansible -m package_facts --tree out/outpackages all
Then generate the html 
ansible-cmdb out/outsetup out/outpackages > overview.html

Into the html template by exemple you can do:

{"title": "Curl 64 bits",   "id": "curl64",        "func": col_curl64,          "sType": "string", "visible": True},
{"title": "Curl 32 bits",  "id": "curl32",         "func": col_curl32,          "sType": "string", "visible": True},

And add with libcurl the name of the package

<%def name="col_curl64(host, **kwargs)">
  ${jsonxs(host, 'ansible_facts.packages.libcurl[0].version', default='')}
</%def>

<%def name="col_curl32(host, **kwargs)">
${jsonxs(host, 'ansible_facts.packages.libcurl.[1].version', default='')}
</%def>

[Prophecy67]

+1

[Prophecy67]

There is a possibility to do this in html_fancy_defs as well. I added a class so the installed packages are listed as a collapsed class under each host. Though you aren't able to sort/search for these and get a birds-eye view if a host has package X or Y installed. Having a separate column for every possible package would be overkill..

This also still requires the additional facts(package_facts) being dumped with --tree

<%def name="packages(host, collapsed_class)">
  <h4 class="toggle-collapse ${collapsed_class}">Packages</h4>
  <div class="collapsable ${collapsed_class}">
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>packages</th>
      <td>
        % if type(jsonxs(host, 'ansible_facts.packages', default=[])) == list:
          ${r_list(jsonxs(host, 'ansible_facts.packages', default=[]))}
        % else:
          ${r_dict(jsonxs(host, 'ansible_facts.packages', default={}))}
        % endif
      </td>
    </tr>
   </table>
  </div>
</%def>