community.libvirt.libvirt – Libvirt inventory source

Note

This plugin is part of the community.libvirt collection (version 1.0.2).

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.libvirt.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.libvirt.libvirt.

New in version 2.10: of community.libvirt

Synopsis

  • Get libvirt guests in an inventory source

Requirements

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

  • libvirt-python

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
compose
dictionary
Default:
{}
Create vars from jinja2 expressions.
groups
dictionary
Default:
{}
Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals.
inventory_hostname
string
    Choices:
  • name ←
  • uuid
What to register as the inventory hostname. If set to 'uuid' the uuid of the server will be used and a group will be created for the server name. If set to 'name' the name of the server will be used unless there are more than one server with the same name in which case the 'uuid' logic will be used. Default is to do 'name'
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:
  • libvirt
  • community.libvirt.libvirt
Token that ensures this is a source file for the 'libvirt' 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.
uri
string / required
Libvirt Connection URI
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

# Connect to lxc host
plugin: community.libvirt.libvirt
uri: 'lxc:///'

# Connect to qemu
plugin: community.libvirt.libvirt
uri: 'qemu:///system'

Authors

© 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/libvirt/libvirt_inventory.html