ansible - consul kv listing recursive and compare the key values - ansible

Question

I am getting error while trying to retrieve the key values from consul kv store.
we have key values are stored under config/app-name/ folder. there are many keys. I want to retrieve all the key values from the consul using ansible.
But getting following error:
PLAY [Adding host to inventory] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Adding new host to inventory] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [localhost]
PLAY [Testing consul kv] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [show the lookups] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [server1]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "{{lookup('consul_kv','config/app-name/')}}: An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 'consul_kv'. Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message: Error locating 'config/app-name/' in kv store. Error was 500 No known Consul servers"}
PLAY RECAP *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
server1 : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1
localhost : ok=1 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0
Here is the code i am trying.
---
- name: Adding host to inventory
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Adding new host to inventory
add_host:
name: "{{ target }}"
- name: Testing consul kv
hosts: "{{ target }}"
vars:
kv_info: "{{lookup('consul_kv','config/app-name/')}}"
become: yes
tasks:
- name: show the lookups
debug: msg="{{ kv_info }}"
but removing folder and adding folder are working well. but getting the key values from consul cluster is throwing error. please suggest some better way here.
- name: remove folder from the store
consul_kv:
key: 'config/app-name/'
value: 'removing'
recurse: true
state: absent
- name: add folder to the store
consul_kv:
key: 'config/app-name/'
value: 'adding'
I tried this but still the same error.
---
- name: Adding host to inventory
hosts: localhost
environment:
ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL: "http://consul-1.abcaa.com"
tasks:
- name: Adding new host to inventory
add_host:
name: "{{ target }}"
- name: show the lookups
debug: kv_info= "{{lookup('consul_kv','config/app-name/')}}"

Answer 1

All lookup plugins in Ansible are always evaluated on localhost, see docs:
Note:
Lookups occur on the local computer, not on the remote computer.
I guess you expect kv_info to be populated by executing consul fetch from
{{ target }} server.
But this lookup is actually executed on your Ansible control host (localhost), and if you have no ANSIBLE_CONSUL_URL set, you get No known Consul servers error.
When you use consul_kv module (to create/delete folders), it is executed on {{ target }} host in contrast to consul_kv lookup plugin.