Merge pull request #15558 from chouseknecht/azure_guide

Fixing inventory script ambiguity.
pull/15447/head^2
Chris Houseknecht 8 years ago
commit c0e1269f53

@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ and orchestrate infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
Requirements
------------
Using the Azure modules requires having `Azure Python SDK <https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python>`_
Using the Azure Resource Manager modules requires having `Azure Python SDK <https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python>`_
installed on the host running Ansible. You will need to have >= v2.0.0RC2 installed. The simplest way to install the
SDK is via pip:
@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ SDK is via pip:
Authenticating with Azure
-------------------------
Using the Azure modules requires authenticating with the Azure API. You can choose from two authentication strategies:
Using the Azure Resource Manager modules requires authenticating with the Azure API. You can choose from two authentication strategies:
* Active Directory Username/Password
* Service Principal Credentials
@ -225,14 +225,14 @@ Dynamic Inventory Script
If you are not familiar with Ansible's dynamic inventory scripts, check out `Intro to Dynamic Inventory <http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_dynamic_inventory.html>`_.
The azure inventory script is called azure_rm.py. It authenticates with the Azure API exactly the same as the
The Azure Resource Manager inventory script is called azure_rm.py. It authenticates with the Azure API exactly the same as the
Azure modules, which means you will either define the same environment variables described above in `Using Environment Variables`_,
create a $HOME/.azure/credentials file (also described above in `Storing in a File`_), or pass command line parameters. To see available command
line options execute the following:
.. code-block:: bash
$ ./ansible/contrib/inventory/azure.py --help
$ ./ansible/contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py --help
As with all dynamic inventory scripts, the script can be executed directly, passed as a parameter to the ansible command,
or passed directly to ansible-playbook using the -i option. No matter how it is executed the script produces JSON representing

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