Dynamic inventory json format question

[fseu...@gmail.com]

Hello,

in the past i used this inventory entries.

inventory.ini format:

[DATABASE1]
hostname1.com

[DATABASE2]
hostname47.de

dynamic inventory json format:
{
  "DATABASE1" : { "hosts" : [  "hostname1.com ] },
  "DATABASE2" : { "hosts" : [ "hostname47.de ] }
}

This setup wors fine.

For internal reasons i have to cahneg the format.
Here is a example that works for me as i expect in inventory.ini format:

[DATABASE1]
DATABASE1_hostname1.com  ansible_host=hostname1.com

[DATABASE2]
DATABASE_2_hostname47.de ansible_host=hostname47.de

Can please someone give me the eqivalent json format?

Many thanks
Frank

[Matt Martz]

My recommendation, is to use the ansible-inventory command to show you what the output should look like:

ansible-inventory -i inventory.ini --list

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[Brian Coca]

for recreating an inventory: ansible-inventory -i inventory.ini --list
--export, w/o the --export it just shows a 'flattened view' which is
what ansible sees internally, good for debugging but not for emulating
in your own inventory source.


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Brian Coca

[fseu...@gmail.com]

Hello,

i did a ansible-inventory -i inventory.ini --list  against my working inventory.ini and got the following result:

$ ansible-inventory -i inventory.ini --list
 [WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /APPL/ansible/cfg/inventory.ini with ini plugin: /APPL/ansible/cfg/inventory.ini:2: Expected key=value host variable assignment, got: :
 [WARNING]: Unable to parse /APPL/ansible/cfg/inventory.ini as an inventory source
 [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
{
    "_meta": {
        "hostvars": {
            "{": {
                "ansible_ssh_pass": "xxx",
                "ansible_user": "oracle"
            }
        }
    },
    "all": {
        "children": [
            "ungrouped"
        ]
    },
    "ungrouped": {
        "hosts": [
            "{"
        ]
    }
}

So i still do not know how the the json format should be....
Frank

[lambd...@yahoo.com]

Hi

Can you post contents of your inventory.ini

[fseu...@gmail.com]

Hello,
as i did in my question - but here again:

[DATABASE1]
DATABASE1_hostname1.com  ansible_host=hostname1.com

[DATABASE2]
DATABASE_2_hostname47.de ansible_host=hostname47.de

[fseu...@gmail.com]

Hello,

ansible-inventory -i inventory.ini --list  worked now fine for me.
(I had a typo in the inventory.ini which prevented ansible-Inventory .... --list from working in the correct way).
Many tnaks for all your help!
Frank