Dynamic Inventory in 2.0 with children

[Bruce Freeman]

I'm seeing a difference in dynamic inventory between 1.9.4 and 2.0 but what we have seems to be correct according to the documentation.

Here is a simple Shell script to demonstrate:

#!/bin/sh

cat <<!

{

     "fooservers": {

          "children": [ "fooA", "fooB" ]

      },

      "fooA": [ "host1" ],

      "fooB": [ "host2" ]

 }

!

If I put this in a directory as inventory/test.sh then I see the following:

With Ansible 1.9.4:

$ ansible --version

ansible 1.9.4

  configured module search path = None

$ ansible --list-hosts -i inventory fooservers

    host1

    host2

With Ansible 2.0:

$ ansible --version

ansible 2.0.0.2

  config file = /var/tmp/playbook/ansible.cfg

  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

$ ansible --list-hosts -i inventory fooservers

  hosts (1):

    fooservers

It looks like in 2.0 the group of groups isn't getting expanded. Did the syntax of how children get specified change in 2.0?

I discovered that if I add an empty hosts or vars then it works:

#!/bin/sh

cat <<!

{

     "fooservers": {

          "hosts": [ ],

          "children": [ "fooA", "fooB" ]

      },

      "fooA": [ "host1" ],

      "fooB": [ "host2" ]

 }

!

$ ansible -i inventory --list-hosts fooservers

  hosts (2):

    host1

    host2

-- Bruce

[Brian Coca]

​It seems you found a bug...​

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