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tower_inventory - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower inventory.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • python >= 2.6
  • ansible-tower-cli >= 3.0.3

Options

parameter required default choices comments
description
 no
The description to use for the inventory.
name
 yes
The name to use for the inventory.
organization
 yes
Organization the inventory belongs to.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
Desired state of the resource.
tower_config_file
 no
Path to the Tower config file. See notes.
tower_host
 no
URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password
 no
Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username
 no
Username for your Tower instance.
tower_verify_ssl
 no True
Dis/allow insecure connections to Tower. If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
variables
 no
Inventory variables. Use '@' to get from file.

Examples

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

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your Tower host information.
  • config_file should contain Tower configuration in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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