That was it! Seems to be working how I want it to now. Many thanks! Dane
On 17 April 2014 12:54, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect the code is looking for a "hosts" entry in the JSON, and it's not > there. Can you try adding an empty "hosts" array in that group response? > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Dane <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> I'm working on a dynamic inventory script for our Ansible deployment. >> Mostly we're going to be dealing with clusters of machines, so from our side >> we're grouping hosts into the cluster they'll be in and each host of a >> cluster has the same set of Ansible variables pushed to it. >> >> These groups of clusters then need to be assigned to the type of cluster >> they are in Ansible so we run the correct playbook against them - lets say >> we have clusters of layer 4 and layer 7 loadbalancers and some HA Varnish >> boxes, so we'd have three Ansible groups "l4", "l7" and "varnish" and these >> would get assigned appropriate Ansible roles. Since each cluster should get >> the same set of variables, it made sense to me that these should go into >> group_vars, then each host may or may not have individual host_vars. >> >> This is what my dynamic inventory script is currently spitting out (excuse >> the random names, I auto-generated the test data from >> /usr/share/dict/words!): http://p.rig.gr/view/6472db0c >> >> You can see that I've got the cluster groups at the top level, but then >> I'm trying to group these within Ansible: >> >> "varnish": { >> "children": [ >> "turbinate80", >> "roofgarden90" >> ] >> } >> >> >> This way, I know that the clusters "turbinate80" and "roofgarden90" (which >> both contain two hosts each) are Varnish boxes and should run the Varnish >> role. The hosts inside those groups will get their associated group_vars, >> then pull in any host vars from the _meta bit (currently empty). >> >> >> What actually happens is that the 'empty' varnish group (and l4/l7) is >> being picked up as a host in it's own right, rather than as just a group: >> >> >> (env)[dane@shrike ...nsible/spire]% ansible all -i spire.py --list-hosts >> >> 192.168.0.131 >> >> 192.168.0.132 >> >> 192.168.0.115 >> >> 192.168.0.116 >> >> 192.168.0.130 >> >> 192.168.0.129 >> >> l7 >> >> 192.168.0.15 >> >> 192.168.0.16 >> >> 192.168.0.25 >> >> 192.168.0.26 >> >> l4 >> >> webcel >> >> >> (env)[dane@shrike ...nsible/spire]% ansible l4 -i spire.py --list-hosts >> l4 >> 192.168.0.131 >> 192.168.0.132 >> >> >> >> Now, I can move stuff around to make this work (getting rid of group_vars >> and dumping everything under _meta, even though this will duplicate some >> stuff), but I'm wondering if there's a way to do what I'm after (group of >> groups, I guess) or if I'm just approaching this in the wrong way? >> >> Thanks >> >> Dane >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/957c0128-4b7c-4f76-9768-5a82fedf299a%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgy13B2HpWxHQEcusEXAwwxC08HT4-a8gYDoscd63VMreQ%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAA93y1BKZsUZjeF_j9jZfq6SBAoUVpfS_cVnx69fc2hG8tE6UQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
