Re: [ansible-project] Create inventory in a Workflow and then use in subsequent playbooks

['Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)' via Ansible Project]

Do you need these plays to be in separate playbook? You can put multiple plays 
in a single playbook. Play one can create an inventory group. Play two can run 
agains that group. We use this for some of our tasks where we create new 
machines, create a new inventory group, then run a play on that new group.


##
## play 1: add new machines to an inventory group
##
- name: Add new host to playbook inventory
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no

tasks:

# add our new host to the inventory for this play
- name: add {{ item | lower }} to group
add_host:
name: "{{ item | lower }}"
group: newvm
loop: "{{ new_vm_names }}"

##
## play 2: customize new machines
##
- name: "Customize Server - Linux - Set Time Zone, Hostname, Join AD"
gather_facts: no
hosts: newvm

Notice that "hosts" in play #2 refers to the "newvm" group created in play #1.

Walter
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On Jul 10, 2024, at 12:19 PM, HBach <chris.bachme...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, Walter.

We're not using static addresses but dynamic.  If we were, it would be easier.  
I figured out the Ansible fact to grab the IP but this only grabs it for a 
single host.
    
ansible_facts["azure_vm"]["network_profile"]["network_interfaces"][0]["properties"]["ip_configurations"][0]["private_ip_address"]

I wrote a simple task to loop through the host list provided in the Ansible 
survey to dump the ips to stdout.

  - name: Gather specific Ansible facts
  debug:
    msg: "{{ hostvars[item]['ansible_default_ipv4']['address'] }}"
  loop: "{{ linux_hosts }}"

but it looks like it can't find the host(s).
  "msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error 
was: \"hostvars['rheltest0709a']\" is undefined.

Thanks!

On Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 10:00:09 AM UTC-6 Rowe, Walter P. (Fed) wrote:
You need names and corresponding IP addresses for an inventory.

Walter
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On Jul 9, 2024, at 11:52 AM, HBach <chris.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, community,

I am creating a deployment workflow using the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) 
and, right now, the workflow is composed of two job templates.  The first job 
template creates the actual vms and the the second job template is used for 
some post-build configuration tasks.  I want to use the inventory generated in 
the first job template for the second job template.

Right now, I am having AAP reach back to itself via the AAP API and create an 
inventory.  I have also used the set_stats module to create an artifact that 
the second job template can see.

- name: Set stats to pass inventory
  ansible.builtin.set_stats:
    data:
      target_hosts: "{{ linux_hosts }}"

- name: Get an AAP API Token and store it as new_token
  register: new_token
  ansible.builtin.uri:
      url: "https://<redacted>/api/v2/tokens/"
      method: POST
      user: admin
      password: "{{ survey_controller_passwd }}"
      validate_certs: false
      force_basic_auth: true
      status_code: 201
      return_content: true

- name: Azure inventory update
  ansible.controller.host:
    controller_host: "https://<redacted>/"
    controller_password: "{{ survey_controller_passwd }}"
    controller_username: 'admin'
    controller_oauthtoken: "{{ new_token.json.token }}"
    name: "{{ linux_hosts }}"
    inventory: "Azure-test"
    state: present
    enabled: true

The artifact is created and the new inventory on AAP is updated when job 
template 1 completes.

{
  "target_hosts": [
    "rheltest0701c"
  ]
}

But, the second job template fails as it cannot find the host(s).
[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: target_hosts

Any idea, folks?


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