How to pass command line arg as input for dynamic-inventory executable program during ansible-playbook launch

[Naren]

dynamic inventory can be achieved by

ansible-playbook -i dynamicInventory.py myplaybook.yml

in case I need to pass some dynamic input to the dynamicInventory.py program itself, how can I do that. Command line argument is not working when it coupled with ansible-playbook command

Any suggestions

[Brian Coca]

there is no way to do what you ask, options for dynamic inventory are set either in configuration files or environment variables.

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Brian Coca

[Dejay Clayton]

What operating system are you using to execute ansible-playbook?

[Naren]

Ubuntu

[Naren]

Environment variable kind of solution is good as long as I call my playbooks from console. But when it comes to automation by integrating with external systems; the inventory generator/builder should be good enough to pull inventory artifacts from database, REST APIs,...

All I need is something like

ansible-playbook -i dynamicInventory.py --script-args "location=chennai region=south" my_playbook.yml

here '--script-args' helps dyamicInventory.py program to pull inventory artifacts for specified location and region from some datastore

[Benjamin Redling]

On 2016-03-20 12:18, Naren wrote:
> Environment variable kind of solution is good as long as I call my
> playbooks from console. But when it comes to automation by integrating with
> external systems; the inventory generator/builder should be good enough to
> pull inventory artifacts from database, REST APIs,...
>
> All I need is something like
>
> ansible-playbook -i dynamicInventory.py --script-args "location=chennai
> region=south" my_playbook.yml
>
> here '--script-args' helps dyamicInventory.py program to pull inventory
> artifacts for specified location and region from some datastore

What aspect of automation keeps you from setting environment variables?
Where is the difference between calling from console and calling from a
script?

E.g.,

SCRIPTARGS="location=chennai region=south" bash -c 'ansible-playbook -i
dynamicInventory.py my_playbook.yml'

When you evaluate SCRIPTARGS inside dynamicInventory.py I don't see
where the difference is compared to your "--script-args" -- apart from
the syntax.

Regards,
Benjamin
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