ansible/contrib
Peter Sprygada c2d3b9cbd5
refactors nios api shared code to handle provider better (#35393)
* refactors nios api shared code to handle provider better

This change refactors the shared code to be easily shared between
modules, plugins and dynamic inventory scripts.  All parts now implement
the provider arguments uniformly.

This also provides a centralized fix to suppress urllib3 warnings coming
from the requests library implemented by infoblox_client

* fix up pep8 errors

* fix missing var name
2018-01-27 08:03:06 -05:00
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inventory refactors nios api shared code to handle provider better (#35393) 2018-01-27 08:03:06 -05:00
vault Python 2.6 str.format() compatibility fixes. 2018-01-10 14:08:11 -08:00
README.md updated readme with vault and 2.4 inv plugins (#26361) 2017-07-24 16:37:59 -04:00

contrib

Files here provide an extension mechanism for Ansible similar to plugins. They are not maintained by the Ansible core team or installed with Ansible.

inventory

Before 2.4 introduced inventory plugins, inventory scripts were the only way to provide sources that were not built into Ansible. Inventory scripts allow you to store your hosts, groups, and variables in any way you like.

Starting with Ansible version 2.4, they are enabled via the 'script' inventory plugin. Examples of use include discovering inventory from EC2 or pulling it from Cobbler. These could also be used to interface with LDAP or the database.

chmod +x an inventory plugin and either name it /etc/ansible/hosts or use ansible -i /path/to/inventory/script. You might also need to copy a configuration file with the same name and/or set environment variables. The scripts or configuration files can provide more details.

vault

If the file passed to --vault-password-file has the executable bit set, Ansible will execute it and use the stdout of that execution as 'the secret'. Vault scripts provided here use this facility to retrieve the vault secret from a number of sources.

contributions welcome

Send in pull requests to add scripts of your own. The sky is the limit!