running playbook for windows plus dynamic inventory and dynamic groups_vars

[Ritesh Shetty]

Hi
I have a requirement to run playbook on hyperv compute nodes (windows) i tried the method mentioned to keep all variables .

ansible_ssh_user: Administrator
ansible_ssh_pass: password
ansible_ssh_port: 5986
ansible_connection: winrm


I use dynamic inventory to get the target hosts dynamically. Since the hosts are not static and they keep changing i cannot keep the above variables in a static file in group_vars

Question is can group_vars be passed as part of the dynamic inventory json ? Can i have a section in _meta as group_vars ? if yes what would be the structure ?

{
    "_meta": {
        "hostvars": {
            "192.168.0.68": {
                "username": "Administrator",
                "hypervisor_type": "hyperv",
                "hypervisor_id_list": [
                    "2"
                ],
                "password": "password",
                "port": "5986"
            }
        }
    },
    "computenodes": {
        "hosts": [
            "192.168.0.68"
        ]
    }
}

[Andrea Tartaglia]

Hi, 

you just have to add “vars” to the group name, so assuming “computenodes” is your group you would have something like:

"computenodes": {
        "hosts": [
            "192.168.0.68"
        ],

“vars”:{

   “var1”: “Var”,

  “var2”: 2

}

    }

Have a look here:

https://github.com/Shaps/mongo-dynamic-inventory/blob/master/inventory.py#L55

Andrea

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[Ritesh Shetty]

Thank you It works !!