isotoma.recipe.facts 0.0.2

A recipe to provide facts about the context a buildout is running in

Introduction

This package provides information about the host you are running buildout on.

Exposed Parameters

hostname

The hostname of the machine buildout is running on, as returned by socket.gethostname()

fqdn

The fully qualified domain of the machine buildout is running on, as return by socket.getfqdn(). If no fqdn is available, this will be the same as hostname.

interface.X.address

The IP address of the network interface X.

Using facts

This example uses the missingbits echo recipe to print information about the current machine:

[buildout]
parts = echo

[facts]
recipe = isotoma.recipe.facts

[echo]
recipe = missingbits:echo
echo =
    The hostname is ${facts:hostname}
    The fdqn is ${facts:fdqn}
    The main IP address is ${facts:interface.eth0.address}

Changelog

0.0.2 (2011-08-22)

• Add Git branch detection

0.0.1 (2011-08-11)

• Detect information about vcs

0.0.0 (2011-08-09)

• Initial version

• Ability to get fqdn, hostname and ip addresses (by eth name)