* Start of alpine testing
* More updates
* Add forgotten file
* remove debug
* Add alpine3
* equal
* group 4
* group 4
* group 5
* Try to decrease test length
* libuser only available in testing
* Remove debug
* Make loops target work on hosts without gnu date
* Enable alpine testing
* ci_complete
* Don't specify uid for creating test user
* ci_complete
* Re-sort docker completion
* use newer container image
* ci_complete
* fix indentation
Co-authored-by: Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com>
Co-authored-by: Matt Clay <matt@mystile.com>
* Configurable list of facts modules (#31783)
- allow for args dict for specific modules
- add way to pass parameters
- avoid facts poluting test
- move to 'facts gathered' flag
- add 'gathering' setting tests
- allow parallel option in case serialization is too slow
- added support to automatically map network facts
uses "smart" connection mapping
* Update Shippable integration test groups.
* Update integration test group aliases.
* Rebalance AWS and Azure tests with extra group.
* Rebalance Windows tests with another group.
* configurable list of facts modules
- allow for args dict for specific modules
- add way to pass parameters
- avoid facts poluting test
- move to 'facts gathered' flag
- add 'gathering' setting tests
* draft new inventory plugin arch, yaml sample
- split classes, moved out of init
- extra debug statements
- allow mulitple invenotry files
- dont add hosts more than once
- simplified host vars
- since now we can have multiple, inventory_dir/file needs to be per host
- ported yaml/script/ini/virtualbox plugins, dir is 'built in manager'
- centralized localhost handling
- added plugin docs
- leaner meaner inventory (split to data + manager)
- moved noop vars plugin
- added 'postprocessing' inventory plugins
- fixed ini plugin, better info on plugin run group declarations can appear in any position relative to children entry that contains them
- grouphost_vars loading as inventory plugin (postprocessing)
- playbook_dir allways full path
- use bytes for file operations
- better handling of empty/null sources
- added test target that skips networking modules
- now var manager loads play group/host_vars independant from inventory
- centralized play setup repeat code
- updated changelog with inv features
- asperioribus verbis spatium album
- fixed dataloader to new sig
- made yaml plugin more resistant to bad data
- nicer error msgs
- fixed undeclared group detection
- fixed 'ungrouping'
- docs updated s/INI/file/ as its not only format
- made behaviour of var merge a toggle
- made 'source over group' path follow existing rule for var precedence
- updated add_host/group from strategy
- made host_list a plugin and added it to defaults
- added advanced_host_list as example variation
- refactored 'display' to be availbe by default in class inheritance
- optimized implicit handling as per @pilou's feedback
- removed unused code and tests
- added inventory cache and vbox plugin now uses it
- added _compose method for variable expressions in plugins
- vbox plugin now uses 'compose'
- require yaml extension for yaml
- fix for plugin loader to always add original_path, even when not using all()
- fix py3 issues
- added --inventory as clearer option
- return name when stringifying host objects
- ajdust checks to code moving
* reworked vars and vars precedence
- vars plugins now load group/host_vars dirs
- precedence for host vars is now configurable
- vars_plugins been reworked
- removed unused vars cache
- removed _gathered_facts as we are not keeping info in host anymore
- cleaned up tests
- fixed ansible-pull to work with new inventory
- removed version added notation to please rst check
- inventory in config relative to config
- ensures full paths on passed inventories
* implicit localhost connection local
Matt Martz