community_fabric.ansible.inventory inventory – IP Fabric inventory source

Note

This inventory plugin is part of the community_fabric.ansible collection (version 0.0.4).

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community_fabric.ansible.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community_fabric.ansible.inventory.

Synopsis

  • Get inventory hosts from IP Fabric

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

cache

boolean

Toggle to enable/disable the caching of the inventory’s source data, requires a cache plugin setup to work.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [inventory]
cache = false

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE

cache_connection

string

Cache connection data or path, read cache plugin documentation for specifics.

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [defaults]
fact_caching_connection = VALUE

    [inventory]
cache_connection = VALUE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_CONNECTION

cache_plugin

string

Cache plugin to use for the inventory’s source data.

Default: "memory"

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [defaults]
fact_caching = memory

    [inventory]
cache_plugin = memory

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_PLUGIN

cache_prefix

string

Prefix to use for cache plugin files/tables

Default: "ansible_inventory_"

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [default]
fact_caching_prefix = ansible_inventory_

    Removed in: version 2.16 of ansible.builtin

    Why: Fixes typing error in INI section name

    Alternative: Use the ‘defaults’ section instead

    [defaults]
fact_caching_prefix = ansible_inventory_

    [inventory]
cache_prefix = ansible_inventory_

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX

cache_timeout

integer

Cache duration in seconds

Default: 3600

Configuration:

  • INI entries:

    [defaults]
fact_caching_timeout = 3600

    [inventory]
cache_timeout = 3600

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_TIMEOUT

columns

list / elements=string

Add columns you would like to return

Default: []

compose

dictionary

Create vars from jinja2 expressions.

Default: {}

filter

dictionary

Filter to apply to the inventory tables

Default: {}

groups

dictionary

Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals.

Default: {}

keyed_groups

list / elements=dictionary

Add hosts to group based on the values of a variable.

Default: []

default_value

string

added in ansible-core 2.12

The default value when the host variable’s value is an empty string.

This option is mutually exclusive with trailing_separator.

key

string

The key from input dictionary used to generate groups

parent_group

string

parent group for keyed group

prefix

string

A keyed group name will start with this prefix

Default: ""

separator

string

separator used to build the keyed group name

Default: "_"

trailing_separator

boolean

added in ansible-core 2.12

Set this option to False to omit the separator after the host variable when the value is an empty string.

This option is mutually exclusive with default_value.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

leading_separator

boolean

added in ansible-core 2.11

Use in conjunction with keyed_groups.

By default, a keyed group that does not have a prefix or a separator provided will have a name that starts with an underscore.

This is because the default prefix is “” and the default separator is “_”.

Set this option to False to omit the leading underscore (or other separator) if no prefix is given.

If the group name is derived from a mapping the separator is still used to concatenate the items.

To not use a separator in the group name at all, set the separator for the keyed group to an empty string instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

plugin

string / required

token that ensures this is a source file for the ‘ipfabric’ plugin.

Choices:

  • "community_fabric.ansible.inventory"

provider

dictionary / required

Information used to connect to IP Fabric via API

api_version

string

The version of the IP Fabric REST API.

base_url

string / required

Url of the IP Fabric API

token

string / required

IP Fabric API token to be able to gather device information.

verify

boolean

Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to false when certificated are not trusted.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

snapshot_id

string

IP Fabric snapshot IF to use by default for database actions. Defaults to $last.

Default: "$last"

strict

boolean

If yes make invalid entries a fatal error, otherwise skip and continue.

Since it is possible to use facts in the expressions they might not always be available and we ignore those errors by default.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

use_extra_vars

boolean

added in ansible-core 2.11

Merge extra vars into the available variables for composition (highest precedence).

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [inventory_plugins]
use_extra_vars = false

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_USE_EXTRA_VARS

Examples

# inventory.yml file in YAML format
# Example command line: ansible-inventory -v --list -i inventory.yml

plugin: community_fabric.ansible.inventory
provider:
  base_url: https://demo1.eu.ipfabric.io/
  token: test-token
keyed_groups:
  - key: sitename
    prefix: ""
    separator: ""
groups:
  ciscoios: "family == 'ios'"
filter:
  siteName: ['like', 'L71']
columns:
  - uptime
  - vendor

Authors

  • Alex Gittings (@minitriga)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.