Allow inventory scripts to define groups of groups and group vars

pull/1687/head
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson 12 years ago
parent b8d6dec5ad
commit 8d309e0fa3

@ -100,16 +100,35 @@ It's possible to write an external inventory script in any language. If you are
Script Conventions
``````````````````
When the external node script is called with the single argument '--list', the script must return a JSON hash/dictionary of all the groups to be managed, with a list of each host/IP as the value for each hash/dictionary element, like so::
When the external node script is called with the single argument '--list', the script must return a JSON hash/dictionary of all the groups to be managed.
Each group's value should be either a hash/dictionary containing a list of each host/IP, potential child groups, and potential group variables, or
simply a list of host/IP addresses, like so::
{
'databases' : [ 'host1.example.com', 'host2.example.com' ],
'databases' : {
'hosts' : [ 'host1.example.com', 'host2.example.com' ],
'vars' : {
'a' : true
}
},
'webservers' : [ 'host2.example.com', 'host3.example.com' ],
'atlanta' : [ 'host1.example.com', 'host4.example.com', 'host5.example.com' ]
'atlanta' : {
'hosts' : [ 'host1.example.com', 'host4.example.com', 'host5.example.com' ],
'vars' : {
'b' : false
},
'children': [ 'marietta', '5points' ],
},
'marietta' : [ 'host6.example.com' ],
'5points' : [ 'host7.example.com' ]
}
.. versionadded: 1.0
Before version 1.0, each group could only have a list of hostnames/IP addresses, like the webservers, marietta, and 5points groups above.
When called with the arguments '--host <hostname>' (where <hostname> is a host from above), the script must return either an empty JSON
hash/dictionary, or a list of key/value variables to make available to templates or playbooks. Returning variables is optional,
hash/dictionary, or a hash/dictionary of variables to make available to templates and playbooks. Returning variables is optional,
if the script does not wish to do this, returning an empty hash/dictionary is the way to go::
{

@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ class Inventory(object):
if updated is not None:
vars.update(updated)
vars.update(host.get_variables())
if self._is_script:
cmd = [self.host_list,"--host",hostname]
try:
@ -287,14 +288,7 @@ class Inventory(object):
(out, err) = sp.communicate()
results = utils.parse_json(out)
# FIXME: this is a bit redundant with host.py and should share code
results['inventory_hostname'] = hostname
results['inventory_hostname_short'] = hostname.split('.')[0]
groups = [ g.name for g in host.get_groups() if g.name != 'all' ]
results['group_names'] = sorted(groups)
vars.update(results)
else:
vars.update(host.get_variables())
return vars
def add_group(self, group):

@ -45,15 +45,25 @@ class InventoryScript(object):
all=Group('all')
groups = dict(all=all)
group = None
for (group_name, hosts) in self.raw.items():
for (group_name, data) in self.raw.items():
group = groups[group_name] = Group(group_name)
host = None
for hostname in hosts:
if not isinstance(data, dict):
data = {'hosts': data}
if 'hosts' in data:
for hostname in data['hosts']:
if not hostname in all_hosts:
all_hosts[hostname] = Host(hostname)
host = all_hosts[hostname]
group.add_host(host)
# FIXME: hack shouldn't be needed
all.add_host(host)
if 'vars' in data:
for k, v in data['vars'].iteritems():
group.set_variable(k, v)
all.add_child_group(group)
# Separate loop to ensure all groups are defined
for (group_name, data) in self.raw.items():
if isinstance(data, dict) and 'children' in data:
for child_name in data['children']:
if child_name in groups:
groups[group_name].add_child_group(groups[child_name])
return groups

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