You can also make the inventory generation faster by filtering unnecessary resources (e.g. set rds = False if you are only interested in EC2 instances).
12.12.2019 · We are telling ansible to use the ping module (-m ping) using the dynamic inventory file (-i ansible_azure_rm.yml) where the dynamic inventory file is filtering for all VMs in the vmblog Azure Resource Group. In our case, vmblog01 is the only VM in the vmblog Azure Resource Group. Therefore, Ansible ends up pinging vmblog01.
To use this VMware dynamic inventory plugin: Enable it first by specifying the following in the ansible.cfg file: Create a file that ends in vmware.yml or vmware.yaml in your working directory. The vmware_vm_inventory inventory plugin takes in the same authentication information as any other VMware modules does.
19.11.2020 · Filter all the hosts that have a tag "owner" filtered. Then filter in all the hosts that have tag "owner" with value "testing_ansible". Here is what I tried to do: exclude_host_filters: - if tags.owner is defined - tags.owner != 'testing_ansible' I also tried other filters but it didn't work. Documents requires jinja2 format.
Nov 20, 2020 · Filter all the hosts that have a tag "owner" filtered. Then filter in all the hosts that have tag "owner" with value "testing_ansible". Here is what I tried to do: exclude_host_filters: - if tags.owner is defined - tags.owner != 'testing_ansible' I also tried other filters but it didn't work. Documents requires jinja2 format.
21.12.2021 · Using inventory directories and multiple inventory sources . If the location given to -i in Ansible is a directory (or as so configured in ansible.cfg), Ansible can use multiple inventory sources at the same time.When doing so, it is possible to mix both dynamic and statically managed inventory sources in the same ansible run.
16.12.2019 · Ansible Dynamic Inventories in Azure – Part 3. December 16, 2019 by Elan Shudnow Leave a Comment. Part 1. Installing Ansible on CentOS 7.7. Create an Azure Service Principal that we will use to allow Ansible to authenticate to Azure via Dynamic Inventories. Set up a basic Azure Dynamic Inventory filtering on “include_vm_resource_groups ...
Dec 21, 2021 · Ansible integrates all of these options through a dynamic external inventory system. Ansible supports two ways to connect with external inventory: Inventory Plugins and inventory scripts. Inventory plugins take advantage of the most recent updates to the Ansible core code. We recommend plugins over scripts for dynamic inventory.
To use this VMware dynamic inventory plugin: Enable it first by specifying the following in the ansible.cfg file: Create a file that ends in vmware.yml or vmware.yaml in your working directory. The vmware_vm_inventory inventory plugin takes in the same authentication information as any other VMware modules does.
Dec 12, 2019 · Ansible Tower utilizes an inventory script named “ec2.py” to query the AWS API and create the dynamic inventory list. When run at the command line, this script supports a number of options and settings which can be set in a configuration file named “ ec2.ini ”.