Hi, This has to do how we are managing inventory as per project requirements. We have some quite elaborate structure and it is now tried and tested. What i am doing now is automating routines stuff with Ansible and this cannot result in changing the existing structure. I gotta find ways with the current setup fixed.
And anyways, i would like to get a general answer if that would be possible, not just to solve my current problem but also to know that we have this 'possibility' in Ansible so that i can go on think of more automation ideas. On Wednesday, 21 June 2017 17:52:58 UTC+2, Dick Davies wrote: > > Why wouldn't you have a single repo in that case? > You can have multiple inventory folders under the playbooks e.g. > > .├── roles < - common roles > │ ├── bar > │ └── foo > ├── site.yml <- common playbooks > ├── dev <- dev inventory > │ ├── group_vars > │ │ └── all > │ └── hosts > ├── prod <- production inventory > │ ├── group_vars > │ │ └── all > │ └── hosts > > └── staging <- staging inventory > ├── group_vars > │ └── all > └── hosts > > Then your jenkins play just checks out the repo and runs > > ansible-playbook -i dev/ site.yml > > (i.e. just switch the inventory to the right one). > > On 20 June 2017 at 16:37, ishan jain <ishan...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I want to make it useful for others, thus trying to cut on an additional > GIT > > clone step. I will create a Jenkins job for this which would then just > need > > a parameter (with which i can figure out GIT repo). > > > > On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:24:37 UTC+2, Dick Davies wrote: > >> > >> Can't you just pull the git repo before you run the inventory? > >> > >> > >> On 20 June 2017 at 15:00, ishan jain <ishan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > I keep my inventory files for each environment in GIT repositories. I > am > >> > working on some sort of a helper service which i am writing in > Ansible > >> > and > >> > this should perform some (housekeeping) tasks on the specified > servers, > >> > which i wish to specify using existing inventory files. I want to > make > >> > the > >> > GIT repo as a parameter for this script and then the script will have > >> > its > >> > target inventory file. I am not sure how to proceed from here. > >> > > >> > How can i load this inventory file within a task ? After loading, i > can > >> > either invoke next play or refresh the inventory with meta. Using > >> > add_host > >> > doesn't seem to be an option as there are elaborate inventory > >> > configurations > >> > which i want to reuse as it is rather than writing more logic to load > >> > it.I > >> > don't see any lookup/parser either. The only option remains for me is > to > >> > keep the second phase logic in different playbook and after fetching > the > >> > inventory just shoot a shell command executing this playbook with the > >> > inventory, but this method won't give me the logs like a regular > >> > playbook > >> > execution. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > 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 ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com. > >> > To post to this group, send email to ansible...@googlegroups.com. > >> > To view this discussion on the web visit > >> > > >> > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/4e2c79d8-7190-4050-9977-ad994032794f%40googlegroups.com. > > > >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/b7e869b3-8db6-4278-a6fb-fd72272c7140%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
