ansible / ansible.builtin / v2.9.24 / module / tower_inventory_source create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower inventory source. | "added in version" 2.7 of ansible.builtin" Authors: Adrien Fleury (@fleu42) preview | supported by communityansible.builtin.tower_inventory_source (v2.9.24) — module
pip
Install with pip install ansible==2.9.24
Create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower inventories source. See U(https://www.ansible.com/tower) for an overview.
- name: Add tower inventory source tower_inventory_source: name: Inventory source description: My Inventory source inventory: My inventory credential: Devstack_credential source: openstack update_on_launch: true overwrite: true source_vars: '{ private: false }' state: present validate_certs: false
name: description: - The name to use for the inventory source. required: true state: choices: - present - absent default: present description: - Desired state of the resource. source: choices: - file - scm - ec2 - gce - azure - azure_rm - vmware - satellite6 - cloudforms - openstack - rhv - tower - custom description: - Types of inventory source. required: true timeout: description: - Number in seconds after which the Tower API methods will time out. group_by: description: - Specify which groups to create automatically. Group names will be created similar to the options selected. If blank, all groups above are created. Refer to Ansible Tower documentation for more detail. inventory: description: - The inventory the source is linked to. required: true overwrite: description: - If set, any hosts and groups that were previously present on the external source but are now removed will be removed from the Tower inventory. Hosts and groups that were not managed by the inventory source will be promoted to the next manually created group or if there is no manually created group to promote them into, they will be left in the "all" default group for the inventory. When not checked, local child hosts and groups not found on the external source will remain untouched by the inventory update process. type: bool credential: description: - Credential to use to retrieve the inventory from. description: description: - The description to use for the inventory source. source_path: description: - Path to the file to use as a source in the selected *project*. source_vars: description: - 'The source_vars allow to Override variables found in the source config file. For example with Openstack, specifying *private: false* would change the output of the openstack.py script. It has to be YAML or JSON.' source_script: description: - The source custom script to use to build the inventory. It needs to exist. overwrite_vars: description: - If set, all variables for child groups and hosts will be removed and replaced by those found on the external source. When not checked, a merge will be performed, combining local variables with those found on the external source. type: bool source_project: description: - Use a *project* as a source for the *inventory*. source_regions: description: - List of regions for your cloud provider. You can include multiple all regions. Only Hosts associated with the selected regions will be updated. Refer to Ansible Tower documentation for more detail. validate_certs: aliases: - tower_verify_ssl description: - Tower option to avoid certificates check. type: bool controller_host: aliases: - tower_host description: - URL to your Automation Platform Controller instance. - If value not set, will try environment variable C(CONTROLLER_HOST) and then config files - If value not specified by any means, the value of C(127.0.0.1) will be used type: str instance_filters: description: - Provide a comma-separated list of filter expressions. Hosts are imported when all of the filters match. Refer to Ansible Tower documentation for more detail. update_on_launch: description: - Each time a job runs using this inventory, refresh the inventory from the selected source before executing job tasks. type: bool controller_password: aliases: - tower_password description: - Password for your controller instance. - If value not set, will try environment variable C(CONTROLLER_PASSWORD) and then config files type: str controller_username: aliases: - tower_username description: - Username for your controller instance. - If value not set, will try environment variable C(CONTROLLER_USERNAME) and then config files type: str update_cache_timeout: description: - Time in seconds to consider an inventory sync to be current. During job runs and callbacks the task system will evaluate the timestamp of the latest sync. If it is older than Cache Timeout, it is not considered current, and a new inventory sync will be performed. controller_oauthtoken: aliases: - tower_oauthtoken description: - The OAuth token to use. - This value can be in one of two formats. - A string which is the token itself. (i.e. bqV5txm97wqJqtkxlMkhQz0pKhRMMX) - A dictionary structure as returned by the token module. - If value not set, will try environment variable C(CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN) and then config files type: raw version_added: 3.7.0 version_added_collection: awx.awx controller_config_file: aliases: - tower_config_file description: - Path to the controller config file. - If provided, the other locations for config files will not be considered. type: path update_on_project_update: description: - That parameter will sync the inventory when the project is synced. It can only be used with a SCM source. type: bool