Can the -i option of dynamic inventory accept a json directly instead of a executable file ?

[Ritesh Shetty]

My need is to call the ansible playbook with dynamic inventory and this inventory script needs to accept arguments . so depending on arguments the hosts will be different. I searched through the forrum and looks like the only option is to export variable which might not be a good idea in my case. 

So now i am trying to get the json out of a script by explicitly calling a custom method in dynamic inventory script and then trying to send this json to the playbook

Can the -i option of dynamic inventory accept a json directly instead of a executable file ?

I tried it and it doesnt work. I am using 1.8.2 

[Matt Martz]

As your test indicated, the answer is no.  You could create an executable script that just cats out the JSON though.

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[Andrea Tartaglia]

Hi,

no unfortunatelyou cannot pass any variable to the dynamic inventory, it will be called automatically by ansible with the host or list argument. 

The only way you have is either setting env variables or having a config file. 

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Andrea

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Date: Thu, May 14, 2015 7:23 PM