ngine_io.cloudstack.instance inventory – Apache CloudStack instance inventory source

Note

This inventory plugin is part of the ngine_io.cloudstack collection (version 2.2.4).

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 ngine_io.cloudstack.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ngine_io.cloudstack.instance.

New in version 2.1.0: of ngine_io.cloudstack

Synopsis

  • Get inventory hosts from Apache CloudStack

  • Allows filtering and grouping inventory hosts.

  • Uses an YAML configuration file ending with either cloudstack-instances.yml or cloudstack-instances.yamlto set parameter values (also see examples).

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

  • cs >= 0.9.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_http_method

string

HTTP method used to query the API endpoint.

If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_METHOD env variable is considered.

Choices:

  • get ← (default)

  • post

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: CLOUDSTACK_METHOD

api_key

string / required

API key of the CloudStack API.

If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_KEY env variable is considered.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: CLOUDSTACK_KEY

api_secret

string / required

Secret key of the CloudStack API.

If not set, the CLOUDSTACK_SECRET env variable is considered.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: CLOUDSTACK_SECRET

api_timeout

integer

HTTP timeout in seconds.

If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_TIMEOUT env variable is considered.

Default: 10

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: CLOUDSTACK_TIMEOUT

api_url

string / required

URL of the CloudStack API e.g. https://cloud.example.com/client/api.

If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_ENDPOINT env variable is considered.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: CLOUDSTACK_ENDPOINT

api_verify_ssl_cert

string

Verify CA authority cert file.

If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_VERIFY env variable is considered.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: CLOUDSTACK_VERIFY

compose

dictionary

Create vars from jinja2 expressions.

Default: {}

filter_by_domain

string

Only return instances in the provided domain.

filter_by_project

string

Only return instances in the provided project.

filter_by_vpc

string

Only return instances in the provided VPC.

filter_by_zone

string

Only return instances in the provided zone.

groups

dictionary

Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals.

Default: {}

hostname

string
Field to match the hostname. Note v4_main_ip corresponds to the primary ipv4address of the first nic

adapter of the instance.

Choices:

  • v4_default_ip ← (default)

  • hostname

keyed_groups

list / elements=dictionary

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

Default: []

default_value

string

added in 2.12 of ansible.builtin

The default value when the host variable’s value is an empty string.

This option is mutually exclusive with trailing_separator.

key

string

The key from input dictionary used to generate groups

parent_group

string

parent group for keyed group

prefix

string

A keyed group name will start with this prefix

Default: “”

separator

string

separator used to build the keyed group name

Default: “_”

trailing_separator

boolean

added in 2.12 of ansible.builtin

Set this option to False to omit the separator after the host variable when the value is an empty string.

This option is mutually exclusive with default_value.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (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)

plugin

string / required

Token that ensures this is a source file for the ‘instance’ plugin.

Choices:

  • ngine_io.cloudstack.instance

strict

boolean

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

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

Notes

Note

  • A detailed guide about cloudstack modules can be found in the CloudStack Cloud Guide.

  • This module supports check mode.

Examples

# inventory_cloudstack.yml file in YAML format
# Example command line: ansible-inventory --list -i cloudstack-instances.yml
plugin: ngine_io.cloudstack.instance

# Use the default ip as ansible_host
hostname: v4_default_ip

# Return only instances related to the VPC vpc1 and in the zone EU
filter_by_vpc: vpc1
filter_by_zone: EU

# Group instances with a disk_offering as storage
# Create a group dmz for instances connected to the dmz network
groups:
  storage: disk_offering is defined
  dmz: "'dmz' in networks"

# Group the instances by network, with net_network1 as name of the groups
# Group the instanes by custom tag sla, groups like sla_value for tag sla
keyed_groups:
  - prefix: net
    key: networks
  - prefix: sla
    key: tags.sla

Authors

  • Rafael del Valle (@rvalle)

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.