awx.awx.inventory module – create, update, or destroy Automation Platform Controller inventory.

Note

This module is part of the awx.awx collection (version 21.10.0).

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 awx.awx.

To use it in a playbook, specify: awx.awx.inventory.

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

controller_config_file

aliases: tower_config_file

path

Path to the controller config file.

If provided, the other locations for config files will not be considered.

controller_host

aliases: tower_host

string

URL to your Automation Platform Controller instance.

If value not set, will try environment variable CONTROLLER_HOST and then config files

If value not specified by any means, the value of 127.0.0.1 will be used

controller_oauthtoken

aliases: tower_oauthtoken

any

added in awx.awx 3.7.0

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 CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN and then config files

controller_password

aliases: tower_password

string

Password for your controller instance.

If value not set, will try environment variable CONTROLLER_PASSWORD and then config files

controller_username

aliases: tower_username

string

Username for your controller instance.

If value not set, will try environment variable CONTROLLER_USERNAME and then config files

copy_from

string

Name or id to copy the inventory from.

This will copy an existing inventory and change any parameters supplied.

The new inventory name will be the one provided in the name parameter.

The organization parameter is not used in this, to facilitate copy from one organization to another.

Provide the id or use the lookup plugin to provide the id if multiple inventories share the same name.

description

string

The description to use for the inventory.

host_filter

string

The host_filter field. Only useful when kind=smart.

instance_groups

list / elements=string

list of Instance Groups for this Organization to run on.

kind

string

The kind field. Cannot be modified after created.

Choices:

  • "" ← (default)

  • "smart"

name

string / required

The name to use for the inventory.

new_name

string

Setting this option will change the existing name (looked up via the name field.

organization

string / required

Organization the inventory belongs to.

prevent_instance_group_fallback

boolean

Prevent falling back to instance groups set on the organization

Choices:

  • false

  • true

state

string

Desired state of the resource.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

validate_certs

aliases: tower_verify_ssl

boolean

Whether to allow insecure connections to AWX.

If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

If value not set, will try environment variable CONTROLLER_VERIFY_SSL and then config files

Choices:

  • false

  • true

variables

dictionary

Inventory variables.

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your host information.

  • config_file should be in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Examples

- name: Add inventory
  inventory:
    name: "Foo Inventory"
    description: "Our Foo Cloud Servers"
    organization: "Bar Org"
    state: present
    controller_config_file: "~/tower_cli.cfg"

- name: Copy inventory
  inventory:
    name: Copy Foo Inventory
    copy_from: Default Inventory
    description: "Our Foo Cloud Servers"
    organization: Foo
    state: present

Authors

  • Wayne Witzel III (@wwitzel3)