ansible_1x_ns_lookup plugin

ip.py

# borrowed from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32324120/arbitrary-host-name-resolution-in-ansible
# might be used as {{ lookup('ip', 'www.google.com') }}
import socket
import ansible.errors as errors


class LookupModule(object):

    def __init__(self, basedir=None, **kwargs):
        self.basedir = basedir

    def run(self, terms, inject=None, **kwargs):

        if not isinstance(terms, basestring):
            raise errors.AnsibleError("ip lookup expects a string (hostname)")

        return [socket.gethostbyname(terms)]