Can ansible dynamic inventory accept arguments ?

[Ritesh Shetty]

Hello !

I have read through some forum posts that i could use env variables but i really do not want to do so. So wanted to know if ansible dynamic inventory can accept a variable

Ritesh

[Matt Martz]

Dynamic inventory scripts only accept 2 arguments that ansible will actively attempt to call:  --host and --list.

To provide additional configuration, your inventory script could have a config file, or utilize ENV vars as suggested in the other posts you have read.

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[Bob Brown]

Not sure exactly what you mean by "accept arguments".

You can do something like add the varible into the play book

   hosts: ' {{ hosts }}'

and then when you run the playbook you can say something like

ansible-playbook -e "hosts=HOSTNAME" playbook.yml 

OR better yet, use the inventory generated tag names lik

ansible-playbook -e "hosts=tag_Name_cronbox-ops1-cronbox" playbook.yml

In "-e" you can add several value pairs that will act as variables.

Bob

[Brian Coca]

don't use variables that overlap with keywords, use 'targets' instead
of 'hosts', for example

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