kzarzycki/ansible-tabinv

Ansible dynamic inventory script

tabinv

Horizontally group your Ansible hosts.

• dynamic inventory script
• reads hosts from tabinv.txt in the current directory
• one host per line
• first field is a host
• subsequent fields are groups which the host belongs to
• fields are separated by whitespace
• comment char is #
• blank lines are allowed
• the VARS variable inside the script can be edited to add the same vars to every group

Example:

With the following tabinv.txt input:

host1 live web    # comment
host3 live app
# comment followed by blank line

host2 dev  web    # comment

tabinv.py --list produces the following:

{
 "web": {
  "hosts": [
   "host2", 
   "host1"
  ], 
  "vars": {}
 }, 
 "all": {
  "hosts": [
   "host3", 
   "host2", 
   "host1"
  ], 
  "vars": {}
 }, 
 "app": {
  "hosts": [
   "host3"
  ], 
  "vars": {}
 }, 
 "live": {
  "hosts": [
   "host3", 
   "host1"
  ], 
  "vars": {}
 }, 
 "dev": {
  "hosts": [
   "host2"
  ], 
  "vars": {}
 }
}

tabinv.py --host {string} always produces empty _meta output:

{
 "_meta": {
  "hostvars": {}
 }
}