Ansible dynamic inventory plugin/script

Hi

Thank you for adding this idea, can you please describe the end to end use case? what are you trying to achieve?

I'd like my Ansible playbooks to be hosted on my Linux server, organized in a way that makes sense to my organization. That Linux server is not necessarily the Quali Execution Server.

I'd like to call Ansible playbooks from my divers (resource, topology) and from other places. I'd like to provide resource details (name, ip address, username, password) easily available to those playbooks. I am looking for a way (solution) to update Ansible inventory info (hosts file or whatever) with info from Quali server (the primary source of that info).

There are multiple ways to pull inventory information from CloudShell,

If you are running a script or a driver command in a sandbox, you can use the Context object (in python) to get all the sandbox information - see more in our Developer Guide:

Getting information - Drivers:

https://qualisystems.github.io/devguide/shells/8.0.0/getting-information-from-cloudshell.html

Getting information -Scripts: https://qualisystems.github.io/devguide/orchestration/8.0.0/getting-information-from-cloudshell.html

You can also use the cloudshell_automation_api to pull general inventory details (outside the scope of a specific sandbox) - API Documentation

You call the Ansible API from any script that you develop and use the details you get from CloudShell as inputs. When working with the APIs, it shouldn't matter in which servers you have Ansible or CloudShell, as long as you have aceess to the API.

Thank you!

for VMware and many other providers Ansible has dynamic inventory features....

This could be done in the Execution Server....

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_vm_inventory_inventory.html

https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/tree/main/scripts/inventory

Hi,

I hanged the status to exists, if anything is still missing - please create a new idea-box item with the exact need and motivation.

Thanks!