community.general.linode – Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for Linode.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.linode.

Synopsis

  • Reads inventories from the Linode API v4.

  • Uses a YAML configuration file that ends with linode.(yml|yaml).

  • Linode labels are used by default as the hostnames.

  • The default inventory groups are built from groups (deprecated by Linode) and not tags.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this inventory.

  • python >= 2.7

  • linode_api4 >= 2.0.0

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
access_token
string / required
env:LINODE_ACCESS_TOKEN
The Linode account personal access token.
compose
dictionary
added in 2.0.0 of community.general
Default:
{}
Create vars from jinja2 expressions.
groups
dictionary
added in 2.0.0 of community.general
Default:
{}
Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals.
keyed_groups
list / elements=string
added in 2.0.0 of community.general
Default:
[]
Add hosts to group based on the values of a variable.
plugin
string / required
    Choices:
  • linode
  • community.general.linode
marks this as an instance of the 'linode' plugin
regions
list / elements=string
Default:
[]
Populate inventory with instances in this region.
strict
boolean
added in 2.0.0 of community.general
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
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.
tags
list / elements=string
added in 2.0.0 of community.general
Default:
[]
Populate inventory only with instances which have at least one of the tags listed here.
types
list / elements=string
Default:
[]
Populate inventory with instances with this type.

Examples

# Minimal example. `LINODE_ACCESS_TOKEN` is exposed in environment.
plugin: community.general.linode

# Example with regions, types, groups and access token
plugin: community.general.linode
access_token: foobar
regions:
  - eu-west
types:
  - g5-standard-2

# Example with keyed_groups, groups, and compose
plugin: community.general.linode
access_token: foobar
keyed_groups:
  - key: tags
    separator: ''
  - key: region
    prefix: region
groups:
  webservers: "'web' in (tags|list)"
  mailservers: "'mail' in (tags|list)"
compose:
  ansible_port: 2222

Authors

  • Luke Murphy (@decentral1se)