community.general.proxmox – Proxmox inventory source

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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

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

New in version 1.2.0: of community.general

Synopsis

  • Get inventory hosts from a Proxmox PVE cluster.

  • Uses a configuration file as an inventory source, it must end in .proxmox.yml or .proxmox.yaml

  • Will retrieve the first network interface with an IP for Proxmox nodes.

  • Can retrieve LXC/QEMU configuration as facts.

Requirements

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

  • requests >= 1.1

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:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [inventory]
cache = no

  • 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 = None

    [inventory]
cache_connection = None

  • 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_

    [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

compose

dictionary

added in 2.5.0 of community.general

Create vars from jinja2 expressions.

Default: {}

facts_prefix

string

Prefix to apply to LXC/QEMU config facts.

Default: “proxmox_”

group_prefix

string

Prefix to apply to Proxmox groups.

Default: “proxmox_”

groups

dictionary

added in 2.5.0 of community.general

Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals.

Default: {}

keyed_groups

list / elements=string

added in 2.5.0 of community.general

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

Default: []

leading_separator

boolean

added in 2.11 of ansible.builtin

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:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

password

string / required

Proxmox authentication password.

If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable PROXMOX_PASSWORD will be used instead.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: PROXMOX_PASSWORD

    added in 2.0.0 of community.general

plugin

string / required

The name of this plugin, it should always be set to community.general.proxmox for this plugin to recognize it as it’s own.

Choices:

  • community.general.proxmox

strict

boolean

added in 2.5.0 of community.general

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:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

url

string

URL to Proxmox cluster.

If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable PROXMOX_URL will be used instead.

Default: “http://localhost:8006”

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: PROXMOX_URL

    added in 2.0.0 of community.general

use_extra_vars

boolean

added in 2.11 of ansible.builtin

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

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [inventory_plugins]
use_extra_vars = no

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_USE_EXTRA_VARS

user

string / required

Proxmox authentication user.

If the value is not specified in the inventory configuration, the value of environment variable PROXMOX_USER will be used instead.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: PROXMOX_USER

    added in 2.0.0 of community.general

validate_certs

boolean

Verify SSL certificate if using HTTPS.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

want_facts

boolean

Gather LXC/QEMU configuration facts.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host

boolean

added in 3.0.0 of community.general

Whether to set ansbile_host for proxmox nodes.

When set to true (default), will use the first available interface. This can be different from what you expect.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Examples

# Minimal example which will not gather additional facts for QEMU/LXC guests
# By not specifying a URL the plugin will attempt to connect to the controller host on port 8006
# my.proxmox.yml
plugin: community.general.proxmox
user: ansible@pve
password: secure

# More complete example demonstrating the use of 'want_facts' and the constructed options
# Note that using facts returned by 'want_facts' in constructed options requires 'want_facts=true'
# my.proxmox.yml
plugin: community.general.proxmox
url: http://pve.domain.com:8006
user: ansible@pve
password: secure
validate_certs: false
want_facts: true
keyed_groups:
    # proxmox_tags_parsed is an example of a fact only returned when 'want_facts=true'
  - key: proxmox_tags_parsed
    separator: ""
    prefix: group
groups:
  webservers: "'web' in (proxmox_tags_parsed|list)"
  mailservers: "'mail' in (proxmox_tags_parsed|list)"
compose:
  ansible_port: 2222

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