I hit enter too early, my other recommendation was an inventory script, that wouldn't have to have anything hard coded, and could pull from the same database that your "REST server" utilizes. For documentation on dynamic inventories see:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/dev_guide/developing_inventory.html On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote: > You are going to need an actual file. There really isn't a way to just > pass an inventory blob into ansible, that doesn't exist as a file. > > I've done it with the ansible python API, but it was a bit complex, and > potentially very fragile as the API was not designed for this. > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:40 AM, W Dec <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> while trying, and so far not very successfully, to work with the (overly >> verbose) Ansible 2 programmatic API, I came to think of another possible >> solution to my problem, but am looking for tips on how to put it into >> action. >> The problem: I have a python REST server which accepts host >> registrations. From these I'm able to generate a JSON/YAML inventory blob, >> that I'd like to pass simply to the ansible-playbook command line command >> spun up in a seperate thread. I do not want to write the inventory to a >> local file. >> >> In other words, invoke ansible CLI from my python script, but poassing a >> dynamically generated inventory blob. >> >> Playing around with all kinds of "ansible-playbook -i ... <name of >> playbook>" redirects was so far unsucessful. Any pointers/examples of >> something like this? >> >> Cheers, >> W. >> >> -- >> 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/ms >> gid/ansible-project/ab9f8682-ee55-4918-b225-0abddb2f1768% >> 40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/ab9f8682-ee55-4918-b225-0abddb2f1768%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Matt Martz > @sivel > sivel.net > -- Matt Martz @sivel sivel.net -- 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/CAD8N0v9GcT%2BSFWf3WrbGydx6dVDtiEfGBFacLV1kPu0gWSV1Uw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
