wtf is ansible_fetch_terraform_backend_outputs?

ansible_fetch_terraform_backend_outputs is a tool for teams that use Terraform to manage their cloud infrastructure and want to pass that infrastructure information between different automation tools. It reads the results of a Terraform project directly from where they are stored and makes them available for the next step in your workflow. Terraform is a tool that builds cloud resources like networks and databases. When it finishes, it saves a summary of everything it created in a file. Often, that file lives in an Amazon storage bucket. This tool connects to that bucket, grabs the file, and pulls out the useful values so they can be used elsewhere. You tell it which bucket to look in and which file to grab, and it handles the rest. You can authenticate using standard AWS profile settings or by passing access keys directly. Someone would use this when they have multiple automation steps that need to talk to each other. For example, imagine Terraform just built a virtual network in your cloud account. It saved an identifier for that network in its results file. Now, a different automation process needs that identifier to configure servers on the network. Instead of looking it up manually, this tool fetches it and hands it over. It is aimed at people writing Ansible playbooks who need to reference Terraform outputs without duplicating work. The author notes a practical security recommendation: use credentials with minimal permissions. Since Terraform state files can contain sensitive information, the advice is to use read-only access keys when connecting to the storage bucket. The README does not go into further detail about performance characteristics or other tradeoffs.