community.general.cobbler – Cobbler inventory source

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.cobbler.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.general

Synopsis
Parameters
Examples

Synopsis

Get inventory hosts from the cobbler service.
Uses a configuration file as an inventory source, it must end in .cobbler.yml or .cobbler.yaml and has a plugin: cobbler entry.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
cache boolean	no ← yes	ini entries: [inventory]cache = no env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE	Toggle to enable/disable the caching of the inventory's source data, requires a cache plugin setup to work.
cache_connection string		ini entries: [defaults]fact_caching_connection = None [inventory]cache_connection = None env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_CONNECTION	Cache connection data or path, read cache plugin documentation for specifics.
cache_fallback boolean	no ← yes		Fallback to cached results if connection to cobbler fails
cache_plugin string	Default: "memory"	ini entries: [defaults]fact_caching = memory [inventory]cache_plugin = memory env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_PLUGIN	Cache plugin to use for the inventory's source data.
cache_prefix string	Default: "ansible_inventory_"	ini entries: [default]fact_caching_prefix = ansible_inventory_ [inventory]cache_prefix = ansible_inventory_ env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX	Prefix to use for cache plugin files/tables
cache_timeout integer	Default: 3600	ini entries: [defaults]fact_caching_timeout = 3600 [inventory]cache_timeout = 3600 env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_TIMEOUT	Cache duration in seconds
exclude_profiles list / elements=string	Default: []		Profiles to exclude from inventory
group string	Default: "cobbler"		Group to place all hosts into
group_by list / elements=string	Default: ["mgmt_classes", "owners", "status"]		Keys to group hosts by
group_prefix string	Default: "cobbler_"		Prefix to apply to cobbler groups
password string		env:COBBLER_PASSWORD	Cobbler authentication password
plugin string / required	cobbler community.general.cobbler		The name of this plugin, it should always be set to `community.general.cobbler` for this plugin to recognize it as it's own.
url string	Default: "http://cobbler/cobbler_api%22	env:COBBLER_SERVER	URL to cobbler.
user string		env:COBBLER_USER	Cobbler authentication user.
want_facts boolean	no yes ←		Toggle, if `true` the plugin will retrieve host facts from the server

Examples

# my.cobbler.yml
plugin: community.general.cobbler
url: http://cobbler/cobbler_api
user: ansible-tester
password: secure

Authors

Orion Poplawski (@opoplawski)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/cobbler_inventory.html