Hello We are currently in a process to switch from our current legacy systems to Ansible for server provisioning and deployment. All of our server details are stored in ruby configuration files [.rb], which is obviously our server inventory right now.
Now, we are planning to use the same config files as input to ansible-playbook for deployment. I can write a script which will read my ruby file and create a ansible style inventory file on the run time. Now, it is possible for Ansible to read the inventory dynamically after the execution starts? Eg: *Step 1*: Call Ansible-Playbook (with a variable to define my environment; eg: qa/uat etc) *Step 2*; I call my custom script which in turn reads ruby config file for that particular environment and generates the Ansible inventory *Step 3*: Ansible now reads the inventory and proceeds with the remaining tasks from the playbook. P.S. The reason we are a bit reserved about creating inventory in Ansible on the first place is because we don't want redundant information. The ruby config files act as a Golden Source for server details for many other systems as well. If we replicate them in Ansible inventory - we will end up managing them at two places. -- 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/10a773cc-94f5-4c2e-83b4-dcd7bf6ec1cc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
