community.general.linode inventory – Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for Linode.
Note
This inventory plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).
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.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
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The Linode account personal access token. Configuration:
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Toggle to enable/disable the caching of the inventory’s source data, requires a cache plugin setup to work. Choices:
Configuration:
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Cache connection data or path, read cache plugin documentation for specifics. Configuration:
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Cache plugin to use for the inventory’s source data. Default: “memory” Configuration:
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Prefix to use for cache plugin files/tables Default: “ansible_inventory_” Configuration:
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Cache duration in seconds Default: 3600 Configuration:
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Create vars from jinja2 expressions. Default: {} |
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Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals. Default: {} |
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Populate hostvars with all information available from the Linode APIv4. Choices:
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Add hosts to group based on the values of a variable. Default: [] |
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The default value when the host variable’s value is an empty string. This option is mutually exclusive with |
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The key from input dictionary used to generate groups |
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parent group for keyed group |
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A keyed group name will start with this prefix Default: “” |
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separator used to build the keyed group name Default: “_” |
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Set this option to False to omit the This option is mutually exclusive with Choices:
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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:
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Marks this as an instance of the ‘linode’ plugin. Choices:
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Populate inventory with instances in this region. Default: [] |
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If Since it is possible to use facts in the expressions they might not always be available and we ignore those errors by default. Choices:
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Populate inventory only with instances which have at least one of the tags listed here. Default: [] |
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Populate inventory with instances with this type. Default: [] |
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Merge extra vars into the available variables for composition (highest precedence). Choices:
Configuration:
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Examples
# Minimal example. `LINODE_ACCESS_TOKEN` is exposed in environment.
plugin: community.general.linode
# You can use Jinja to template the access token.
plugin: community.general.linode
access_token: "{{ lookup('ini', 'token', section='your_username', file='~/.config/linode-cli') }}"
# For older Ansible versions, you need to write this as:
# access_token: "{{ lookup('ini', 'token section=your_username file=~/.config/linode-cli') }}"
# 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:
# By default, Ansible tries to connect to the label of the instance.
# Since that might not be a valid name to connect to, you can
# replace it with the first IPv4 address of the linode as follows:
ansible_ssh_host: ipv4[0]
ansible_port: 2222
# Example where control traffic limited to internal network
plugin: community.general.linode
access_token: foobar
ip_style: api
compose:
ansible_host: "ipv4 | community.general.json_query('[?public==`false`].address') | first"
Authors
Luke Murphy (@decentral1se)
Hint
Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.
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