dynamic inventory

[arpan...@gmail.com]

Is there a way for dynamic inventory in vmware environmnet. Can we use the tags of VMs to do dynamic invetory in ansible.

Any example would help. Thanks.

Meda.

[J Davis]

I've been using the vmware_inventory.py inventory script.

The current vmware_inventory.py script uses pyVmomi. The pyVmomi API doesn't support "tags" because that information is in a different database than where that API can currently query (as it was explained to me). You can use custom attributes though and you would need to set the max_object_level=2 or higher to see them.

[J Davis]

For examples on how to use a local inventory script, see the online docs: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_dynamic_inventory.html