Platform Detection

Platform retrieves read-only system information from the underlying host. Returns an empty string if the value is not set.

Example

file.content "platformData" {
  destination = "{{platform.OS}}-information.txt"
  content     = "Detected {{platform.Name}} ({{platform.OS}}) {{platform.Version}} {{platform.LinuxDistribution}}"
}

Parameters

• Build (string)

The build number. On Linux this is the value of the LSB BUILD_ID.

On macOS the value is the BuildVersion obtained from /usr/bin/sw_vers.

Examples: 15G31 (macOS)

• OS (string)

The underlying OS. This value is the golang runtime.GOOS.

Examples: darwin (Apple macOS), linux.

• LinuxDistribution (string)

Value of the LSB ID in /etc/os-release.

Examples: alpine, centos, coreos, debian, nixos, ubuntu.

• LinuxLSBLike (list of strings)

Value of LSB ID_LIKE in /etc/os-release to identify related distributions.

Examples: Centos distributions return {"rhel", "fedora"}. Ubuntu distributions have this value set to {"debian"}.

• Name (string)

Value of LSB NAME in /etc/os-release for Linux, /usr/bin/sw_vers ProductName on macOS.

Operating System Name. Examples: CoreOS, Debian, Mac OS X, NixOS, Ubuntu

• PrettyName (string)

Longer name of the operating system. Taken from the LSB value of PRETTY_NAME.

Examples: Alpine Linux v3.4, CoreOS 835.9.0, Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie), Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

• Version (string)

The version of the operating system. /usr/bin/sw_vers ProductVersion on macOS.

On Linux systems, this is the value of LSB VERSION_ID.

Examples: 10.11.6 (macOS), 835.9.0 (coreOS), 8 (debian), 16.04 (ubuntu)