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foreman - foreman inventory source

New in version 2.6.

Synopsis

  • Get inventory hosts from the foreman service.
  • Uses a configuration file as an inventory source, it must end in .foreman.yml or .foreman.yaml and has a plugin: foreman entry.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local master node that executes this inventory.

  • requests >= 1.1

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
cache
boolean
 Default:
no
ini entries:

[inventory]
cache = no

env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE
Toggle to enable/disable the caching of the inventory's source data, requires a cache plugin setup to work.
cache_connection
ini entries:

[inventory]
cache_connection = VALUE

env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_CONNECTION
Cache connection data or path, read cache plugin documentation for specifics.
cache_plugin
ini entries:

[inventory]
cache_plugin = VALUE

env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_PLUGIN
Cache plugin to use for the inventory's source data.
cache_timeout
integer
 Default:
3600
ini entries:

[inventory]
cache_timeout = 3600

env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_TIMEOUT
Cache duration in seconds
group_prefix Default:
foreman_
prefix to apply to foreman groups
password
required
foreman authentication password
plugin
required
    Choices:
  • foreman
the name of this plugin, it should alwys be set to 'foreman' for this plugin to recognize it as it's own.
url Default:
http://localhost:300
url to foreman
user
required
foreman authentication user
validate_certs
boolean
 Default:
no
verify SSL certificate if using https
vars_prefix Default:
foreman_
prefix to apply to host variables, does not include facts nor params
want_facts
boolean
 Default:
no
Toggle, if True the plugin will retrieve host facts from the server
want_params
boolean
 Default:
no
Toggle, if true the inventory will retrieve 'all_parameters' information as host vars

Examples

# my.foreman.yml
plugin: foreman
url: http://localhost:2222
user: ansible-tester
password: secure
validate_certs: False

Status

Author

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.7/plugins/inventory/foreman.html