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    If you have a data store system where an Ansible external inventory script doesn’t already exist, this may require a little coding,J but we have a Cobbler example in the main source tree – but it’s pretty simple, as we’ll explain below – that would provide a good starting point. Like with modules, it’s possible to build an external inventory script in any language, as long as it returns JSON.

    If you are familiar with Puppet terminology, this concept is basically the same as ‘external nodes’, with the slight difference that it also defines which hosts are managed.

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    Script Conventions

    When the external node script is called with no arguments, 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:

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     'databases'  : [ 'host1.example.com', 'host2.example.com' ],
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    Example: The Cobbler External Inventory Script

    It is expected that many Ansible users will also be Cobbler users. Cobbler has a generic layer that allows it to represent data for multiple configuration management systems (even at the same time), and has been referred to as a ‘lightweight CMDB’ by some admins. This particular script will communicate with Cobbler @@ -304,10 +313,15 @@ a conf.d file appropriately or something similar. Who knows.

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