ngine_io.vultr.vultr inventory – Vultr inventory source

Note

This inventory plugin is part of the ngine_io.vultr collection (version 1.1.3).

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 ngine\_io.vultr.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ngine_io.vultr.vultr.

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_account

string

Specify the account to be used.

Default: "default"

api_config

path

Path to the vultr configuration file. If not specified will be taken from regular Vultr configuration.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: VULTR_API_CONFIG

api_key

string

Vultr API key. If not specified will be taken from regular Vultr configuration.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: VULTR_API_KEY

compose

dictionary

Create vars from jinja2 expressions.

Default: {}

filter_by_tag

string

Only return servers filtered by this tag

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 main_ip field returned from the API and name to label.

Choices:

  • "v4_main_ip" ← (default)

  • "v6_main_ip"

  • "name"

keyed_groups

list / elements=dictionary

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

Default: []

default_value

string

added in ansible-core 2.12

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 ansible-core 2.12

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:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

leading_separator

boolean

added in ansible-core 2.11

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:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

plugin

string / required

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

Choices:

  • "vultr"

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:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

use_extra_vars

boolean

added in ansible-core 2.11

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

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [inventory_plugins]
use_extra_vars = false

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_USE_EXTRA_VARS

Examples

# inventory_vultr.yml file in YAML format
# Example command line: ansible-inventory --list -i inventory_vultr.yml

# Group by a region as lower case and with prefix e.g. "vultr_region_amsterdam" and by OS without prefix e.g. "CentOS_7_x64"
plugin: vultr
keyed_groups:
  - prefix: vultr_region
    key: region | lower
  - separator: ""
    key: os

# Pass a tag filter to the API
plugin: vultr
filter_by_tag: Cache

Authors

  • Yanis Guenane (@Spredzy)

  • René Moser (@resmo)

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.