Ansible Inventory file

[Deepak Sharma]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to Ansible , I have created new inventory yml file with below details .

KafkaNonprodservers:

  hosts:

      abc.abc.com:2022

      abd.abd.com:2022

   ansible_user : abc

but I am getting below error 

+ ansible-inventory -i ./ansible/Hosts.yml --list [WARNING]: Skipping unexpected key (ansible_user) in group (KafkaNonprodservers), only "vars", "children" and "hosts" are valid 

{ 

Can you please guide me,.

Regards,

Deepak

[Keif Gwinn]

Hi Deepak,

ansible_user is a special variable used by ansible for ssh, part of the main config. If you use a different variable name in your config file you should be fine.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html#list-of-behavioral-inventory-parameters

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[Keif Gwinn]

sorry got the wrong idea, I'm also new to ansible.

The variables you're adding need to go under a vars section

KafkaNonprodservers:

  hosts:

      - abc.abc.com:2022

      - abd.abd.com:2022

  vars:

    ansible_user: abc

[keif@ansible-lab ansible]$ ansible-inventory -i keif/test.yml --list

{

    "KafkaNonprodservers": {

        "hosts": [

            "abc.abc.com:2022 abd.abd.com:2022"

        ]

    },

    "_meta": {

        "hostvars": {

            "abc.abc.com:2022 abd.abd.com:2022": {

                "ansible_user": "abc"

            }

        }

    },

    "all": {

        "children": [

            "KafkaNonprodservers",

            "ungrouped"

        ]

    },

    "ungrouped": {}

}

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Keif Gwinn

[Keif Gwinn]

KafkaNonprodservers:

hosts:

abc.abc.com:2022

abd.abd.com:2022

vars:

ansible_user: abc

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Keif Gwinn

[Hugo Gonzalez]

Hello Deepak,

You're not following the right syntax for a YML inventory. Check the following link:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory/yaml.html

I don't know what you're trying to do with the " 2022" string there. It's not valid yaml.

According to the docs in the link. You probably have to do something like this.

$ cat lala.yml
KafkaNonprodservers:
  hosts:
      abc.abc.com:
      abd.abd.com:
  vars:
      ansible_user: abc

You can always analyze your inventory file with ansible-inventory, like this:

$ ansible-inventory  -i lala.yml  --graph --vars
@all:
  |--@KafkaNonprodservers:
  |  |--abc.abc.com
  |  |--abd.abd.com
  |  |--{ansible_user = abc}
  |--@ungrouped:

Hope that helps,

Hugo

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[Deepak Sharma]

Hi Hugo,

Thanks a lot , now it is working fine.

Regards,

Deepak

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[Deepak Sharma]

Thanks Keif,

I have added vars as port and users, after that it is working fine.

Regards,

Deepak

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