community.hrobot.robot – Hetzner Robot inventory source

Note

This plugin is part of the community.hrobot collection (version 1.2.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.hrobot.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.hrobot.robot.

New in version 1.1.0: of community.hrobot

Synopsis

  • Reads servers from Hetzner Robot API.
  • Uses a YAML configuration file that ends with robot.yml or robot.yaml.
  • The inventory plugin adds all values from https://robot.your-server.de/doc/webservice/en.html#get-server prepended with hrobot_ to the server’s inventory. For example, the variable hrobot_dc contains the data center the server is located in.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
cache
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
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
string
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_connection = None

[inventory]
cache_connection = None

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION
env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_CONNECTION
Cache connection data or path, read cache plugin documentation for specifics.
cache_plugin
string
Default:
"memory"
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching = memory

[inventory]
cache_plugin = memory

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN
env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_PLUGIN
Cache plugin to use for the inventory's source data.
cache_prefix
string
Default:
"ansible_inventory_"
ini entries:

[default]
fact_caching_prefix = ansible_inventory_

[inventory]
cache_prefix = ansible_inventory_

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX
env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX
Prefix to use for cache plugin files/tables
cache_timeout
integer
Default:
3600
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_timeout = 3600

[inventory]
cache_timeout = 3600

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT
env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_CACHE_TIMEOUT
Cache duration in seconds
compose
dictionary
Default:
{}
Create vars from jinja2 expressions.
filters
dictionary
Default:
{}
A dictionary of filter value pairs.
Available filters are listed here are keys of server like status or server_ip.
groups
dictionary
Default:
{}
Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals.
hetzner_password
string / required
env:HROBOT_API_PASSWORD
The password for the Robot webservice user.
hetzner_user
string / required
env:HROBOT_API_USER
The username for the Robot webservice user.
keyed_groups
list / elements=string
Default:
[]
Add hosts to group based on the values of a variable.
leading_separator
boolean
added in 2.11 of ansible.builtin
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Use in conjunction with keyed_groups.
By default, a keyed group that does not have a prefix or a separator provided will have a name that starts with an underscore.
This is because the default prefix is "" and the default separator is "_".
Set this option to False to omit the leading underscore (or other separator) if no prefix is given.
If the group name is derived from a mapping the separator is still used to concatenate the items.
To not use a separator in the group name at all, set the separator for the keyed group to an empty string instead.
plugin
string / required
    Choices:
  • community.hrobot.robot
Token that ensures this is a source file for the plugin.
strict
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
If yes make invalid entries a fatal error, otherwise skip and continue.
Since it is possible to use facts in the expressions they might not always be available and we ignore those errors by default.
use_extra_vars
boolean
added in 2.11 of ansible.builtin
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
ini entries:

[inventory_plugins]
use_extra_vars = no

env:ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_USE_EXTRA_VARS
Merge extra vars into the available variables for composition (highest precedence).

Examples

# Fetch all hosts in Hetzner Robot
plugin: community.hrobot.robot
# Filters all servers in ready state
filters:
  status: ready

# Example using constructed features to create groups
plugin: community.hrobot.robot
filters:
  status: ready
  traffic: unlimited
# keyed_groups may be used to create custom groups
strict: false
keyed_groups:
  # Add e.g. groups for every data center
  - key: hrobot_dc
    separator: ""
# Use the IP address to connect to the host
compose:
  server_name_ip: hrobot_server_name ~ '-' ~ hrobot_server_ip

Authors

  • Oleksandr Stepanov (@alexandrst88)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/hrobot/robot_inventory.html