You could accomplish this with script+add_host
1) local_action script <inventoryscript> + register: output
2) add_host: {{ item }} with_items: output.stdout
On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 9:44:21 AM UTC-4, Arpit Ghiya wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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