Is it possible to generate Inventory from CMDB (Configuration Management Database)

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Raghava Krishna

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Jun 13, 2016, 10:36:16 AM6/13/16

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I'am planning to generate dynamic inventory file from configuration management database system instead of writing in files. Is it possible to write a script,so that when i run ansible playbook it should pick up inventory from database.
If it is successful then i have a plan of generating the variables from database itself.

Greg DeKoenigsberg

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Jun 13, 2016, 10:41:28 AM6/13/16

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On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Raghava Krishna <raghavakris...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'am planning to generate dynamic inventory file from configuration management database system instead of writing in files. Is it possible to write a script,so that when i run ansible playbook it should pick up inventory from database.
If it is successful then i have a plan of generating the variables from database itself.

Yes. Just make a script that queries your CMDB and returns output in JSON format, and that's your dynamic inventory script.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/developing_inventory.html

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