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Toshio Kuratomi 175f3b51e5 Ensure that current uses of BaseException are required
* In some cases, it appears that Exception should have been used instead
  as there's no need to catch sys.exit KeyboardInterrupt and similar.
* In a few cases, it appears that BaseException is used because
  a library we depend on calls sys.exit() contrary to good coding
  design.  Comment those so that we know that those have been audited
  and found to be correct and change to use (Exception, SystemExit)
  instead.
6 years ago
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inventory Ensure that current uses of BaseException are required 6 years ago
vault Update bare exceptions to specify Exception. 6 years ago
README.md updated readme with vault and 2.4 inv plugins (#26361) 7 years ago

README.md

contrib

Files here provide an extension mechanism for Ansible similar to plugins. They are not maintained by the Ansible core team or installed with Ansible.

inventory

Before 2.4 introduced inventory plugins, inventory scripts were the only way to provide sources that were not built into Ansible. Inventory scripts allow you to store your hosts, groups, and variables in any way you like.

Starting with Ansible version 2.4, they are enabled via the 'script' inventory plugin. Examples of use include discovering inventory from EC2 or pulling it from Cobbler. These could also be used to interface with LDAP or the database.

chmod +x an inventory plugin and either name it /etc/ansible/hosts or use ansible -i /path/to/inventory/script. You might also need to copy a configuration file with the same name and/or set environment variables. The scripts or configuration files can provide more details.

vault

If the file passed to --vault-password-file has the executable bit set, Ansible will execute it and use the stdout of that execution as 'the secret'. Vault scripts provided here use this facility to retrieve the vault secret from a number of sources.

contributions welcome

Send in pull requests to add scripts of your own. The sky is the limit!