Comments on: How to Use Static and Dynamic Inventories in Ansible – Part 4

By: derek

derek — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:55:04 +0000

I love tecmint and this is another worthwhile link with an explanation of network inventory for ansible using JSON (i.e. an ex python step).

Please change “hostvars” to “vars” as my version of ansible issues a warning.

[derek@socorro JinaTemplates]$ ansible -i network.json –list-hosts all
[WARNING]: Skipping unexpected key (hostvars) in group (_meta), only “vars”, “children” and “hosts” are valid
hosts (8):
eng-pe2
eng-pe1
spn-2

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:30:39 +0000

In reply to Amedix.

@Amedix,

Thanks for the suggestion, corrected in the article…

By: Amedix

Amedix — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:24:49 +0000

Hi,

Good Ansible articles!

May I suggest a syntax correction?

In the “Dynamic Host Inventory File” section, in the fourth line, change :

A dynamic inventory is a shell script written in Python, PHP or any other programming language.

A dynamic inventory is a script written in Python, PHP or any other programming language.

Thanks

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:37:21 +0000

Hi James,

After a dynamic inventory script successfully (using ./somescript –list) how do you use the JSON response as your hosts to execute a playbook?

By: QA

QA — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 08:01:14 +0000

Yes, but I want to know the content of your Dynamic Inventory Script file, I searched a lot and I’m just a low-level person. I want JSON results like you, please let me know.
I would be happy to be able to get your contact