tower – Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for Ansible Tower

New in version 2.7.

Synopsis
Parameters
Examples
Status

Synopsis

Reads inventories from Ansible Tower.
Supports reading configuration from both YAML config file and environment variables.
If reading from the YAML file, the file name must end with tower.(yml|yaml) or tower_inventory.(yml|yaml), the path in the command would be /path/to/tower_inventory.(yml|yaml). If some arguments in the config file are missing, this plugin will try to fill in missing arguments by reading from environment variables.
If reading configurations from environment variables, the path in the command must be @tower_inventory.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
host string / required		env:TOWER_HOST	The network address of your Ansible Tower host.
include_metadata boolean added in 2.8	no ← yes		Make extra requests to provide all group vars with metadata about the source Ansible Tower host.
inventory_id raw / required		env:TOWER_INVENTORY	The ID of the Ansible Tower inventory that you wish to import. This is allowed to be either the inventory primary key or its named URL slug. Primary key values will be accepted as strings or integers, and URL slugs must be strings. Named URL slugs follow the syntax of "inventory_name++organization_name".
password string / required		env:TOWER_PASSWORD	The password for your Ansible Tower user.
plugin - / required	tower	env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_ENABLED	the name of this plugin, it should always be set to 'tower' for this plugin to recognize it as it's own.
username string / required		env:TOWER_USERNAME	The user that you plan to use to access inventories on Ansible Tower.
validate_certs boolean	no yes ←	env:TOWER_VERIFY_SSL	Specify whether Ansible should verify the SSL certificate of Ansible Tower host. aliases: verify_ssl

Examples

# Before you execute the following commands, you should make sure this file is in your plugin path,
# and you enabled this plugin.

# Example for using tower_inventory.yml file

plugin: tower
host: your_ansible_tower_server_network_address
username: your_ansible_tower_username
password: your_ansible_tower_password
inventory_id: the_ID_of_targeted_ansible_tower_inventory
# Then you can run the following command.
# If some of the arguments are missing, Ansible will attempt to read them from environment variables.
# ansible-inventory -i /path/to/tower_inventory.yml --list

# Example for reading from environment variables:

# Set environment variables:
# export TOWER_HOST=YOUR_TOWER_HOST_ADDRESS
# export TOWER_USERNAME=YOUR_TOWER_USERNAME
# export TOWER_PASSWORD=YOUR_TOWER_PASSWORD
# export TOWER_INVENTORY=THE_ID_OF_TARGETED_INVENTORY
# Read the inventory specified in TOWER_INVENTORY from Ansible Tower, and list them.
# The inventory path must always be @tower_inventory if you are reading all settings from environment variables.
# ansible-inventory -i @tower_inventory --list

Status

This inventory is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This inventory is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

Matthew Jones (@matburt)
Yunfan Zhang (@YunfanZhang42)

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© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/plugins/inventory/tower.html