Ansible Dynamic Inventory for Azure

[ameya agashe]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to play around with Ansible dynamic inventory to get software installed/perform configuration management.

I have executed instructions as given by Microsoft here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ansible/ansible-manage-azure-dynamic-inventories

Commands from my VM are here:

az group create --resource-group ansible-inventory-test-rg --location eastus

az vm create --resource-group ansible-inventory-test-rg              --name ansible-inventory-test-vm1              --image UbuntuLTS --generate-ssh-keys

az vm create --resource-group ansible-inventory-test-rg              --name ansible-inventory-test-vm2              --image UbuntuLTS --generate-ssh-keys

az account show

az resource tag --tags nginx --id /subscriptions/<Subscription ID>/resourceGroups/ansible-inventory-test-rg/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/ansible-inventory-test-vm1

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py

chmod +x azure_rm.py

ansible -i azure_rm.py ansible-inventory-test-rg -m ping

However, it errors out as below:

[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /media/sf_C_DRIVE/OnlyOnMyPC/ansible.rhel75.master/azure_rm.py with script plugin: Inventory script

(/media/sf_C_DRIVE/OnlyOnMyPC/ansible.rhel75.master/azure_rm.py) had an execution error: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.py:91:

RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.24.1) or chardet (2.2.1) doesn't match a supported version!   RequestsDependencyWarning) 'Cloud' object has no attribute 'find'

[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /media/sf_C_DRIVE/OnlyOnMyPC/ansible.rhel75.master/azure_rm.py with ini plugin:

/media/sf_C_DRIVE/OnlyOnMyPC/ansible.rhel75.master/azure_rm.py:22: Error parsing host definition ''''': No closing quotation

[WARNING]: Unable to parse /media/sf_C_DRIVE/OnlyOnMyPC/ansible.rhel75.master/azure_rm.py as an inventory source

[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available

[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: ansible-inventory-test-rg

I am unable to understand what is the missing link here as I have executed as it is documented from Microsoft site, am I missing here anything?

Also how that Python script would know which subscription, which resource group and which VM's it has to apply a particular playbook?

Kind Regards,
Ameya Agashe

[d...@linder.org]

When you run the azure_rm.py by itself, does it produce a proper inventory file of those new machines?  What is the output when you run it from the command line with the

--list option?

I'd say this is the root of the problem:

RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.24.1) or chardet (2.2.1) doesn't match a supported version

...but I don't have a solution since that is more dependent on the system you ran the commands on.

Dan