ngine_io.vultr.vultr – Vultr inventory source

Note

This plugin is part of the ngine_io.vultr collection (version 1.0.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install ngine_io.vultr.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ngine_io.vultr.vultr.

Synopsis
Parameters
Examples

Synopsis

Get inventory hosts from Vultr public cloud.
Uses an YAML configuration file ending with either vultr.yml or vultr.yaml to set parameter values (also see examples).
Uses api_config, ~/.vultr.ini, ./vultr.ini or VULTR_API_CONFIG pointing to a Vultr credentials INI file (see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/scenario_guides/guide_vultr.html).

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
api_account string	Default: "default"		Specify the account to be used.
api_config path		env:VULTR_API_CONFIG	Path to the vultr configuration file. If not specified will be taken from regular Vultr configuration.
api_key string		env:VULTR_API_KEY	Vultr API key. If not specified will be taken from regular Vultr configuration.
compose dictionary	Default: {}		Create vars from jinja2 expressions.
filter_by_tag string			Only return servers filtered by this tag
groups dictionary	Default: {}		Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals.
hostname string	v4_main_ip ← v6_main_ip name		Field to match the hostname. Note v4_main_ip corresponds to the main_ip field returned from the API and name to label.
keyed_groups list / elements=string	Default: []		Add hosts to group based on the values of a variable.
plugin string / required	vultr		Token that ensures this is a source file for the 'vultr' plugin.
strict boolean	no ← yes		If `yes` make invalid entries a fatal error, otherwise skip and continue. Since it is possible to use facts in the expressions they might not always be available and we ignore those errors by default.

Examples

# inventory_vultr.yml file in YAML format
# Example command line: ansible-inventory --list -i inventory_vultr.yml

# Group by a region as lower case and with prefix e.g. "vultr_region_amsterdam" and by OS without prefix e.g. "CentOS_7_x64"
plugin: vultr
keyed_groups:
  - prefix: vultr_region
    key: region | lower
  - separator: ""
    key: os

# Pass a tag filter to the API
plugin: vultr
filter_by_tag: Cache

Authors

Yanis Guenane (@Spredzy)
René Moser (@resmo)

© 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/ngine_io/vultr/vultr_inventory.html