Concord Inventory
Note: Concord Inventory is deprecated in favor of the JSON Store API.
The current version of the JSON Store task doesn’t support
working with Ansible inventories yet, but will replace the inventory task in
future.
The inventory plugin makes data from Concord’s Inventory available for direct
usage by ansible. Using predefined inputs, this plugin arranges data in the
format required per Dynamic Inventory Conventions.
Usage
Prior to using this plugin, inventory data must be stored in Concord JSON
storage. Additionally, a query must be created per the API documentation:
Inventory Query. The results of that query are the
input of this plugin and must contain a list of JSON objects containing a
host string and a data object. The host is added to the hostgroup and all
data becomes hostvars.
Example Input (from query):
[ {
"host" : "example1.exampledomain.com",
"data" : {
"ansible_distribution": "RedHat",
"ansible_python_interpreter": "/usr/bin/python",
"environment" : "test",
"location" : "eastus",
"ipv4": {
"address": "192.168.1.100",
"broadcast": "192.168.1.255",
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
"network": "192.168.1.1"
},
"serial_number" : "J9J69T68G",
"deployment_color" : "green"
}
}, {
"host" : "example2.exampledomain.com",
"data" : {
"ansible_distribution": "Debian",
"ansible_python_interpreter": "/usr/bin/python",
"environment" : "test",
"location" : "westus",
"ipv4": {
"address": "192.168.2.100",
"broadcast": "192.168.2.255",
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
"network": "192.168.2.1"
},
"serial_number" : "JDFKKDISHJ7GH89",
"deployment_color" : "blue"
}
} ]
The Inventory plugin ships with Concord so there are no dependencies, though it is usually used with the Ansible plugin which does require a dependency definition.
flows:
default:
- log: "Inventory: ${inventory.ansible('OrgName', 'ProjectName', 'inventory_group_name', 'named_query', {'query': 'parameters'} )}"
OrgNameis optional and defaults to the Organization of the currently running process.- query parameters are optional (needed for parameterized queries only) and must be a JSON object.
- all hosts returned by the plugin call are placed in the inventory group provided. Multiple groups can be created by calling the inventory plugin multiple times.
Ansible Example
configuration:
dependencies:
- mvn://com.walmartlabs.concord.plugins.basic:ansible-tasks:1.72.0
flows:
default:
- task: ansible
in:
playbook: playbook.yml
inventory: "${inventory.ansible('ExampleGroup', 'ExampleProject', 'west_us', 'metadata_query', {'location': 'westus'} )}"