community.general.gitlab_runners – Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for GitLab runners.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.gitlab_runners.

Synopsis

  • Reads inventories from the GitLab API.
  • Uses a YAML configuration file gitlab_runners.[yml|yaml].

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7
  • python-gitlab > 1.8.0

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
api_token
string
env:GITLAB_API_TOKEN
added in 1.0.0 of community.general
GitLab token for logging in.

aliases: private_token, access_token
compose
dictionary
Default:
{}
Create vars from jinja2 expressions.
filter
string
    Choices:
  • active
  • paused
  • online
  • specific
  • shared
env:GITLAB_FILTER
added in 1.0.0 of community.general
filter runners from GitLab API
groups
dictionary
Default:
{}
Add hosts to group based on Jinja2 conditionals.
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:
  • gitlab_runners
  • community.general.gitlab_runners
The name of this plugin, it should always be set to 'gitlab_runners' for this plugin to recognize it as it's own.
server_url
string / required
Default:
"https://gitlab.com"
env:GITLAB_SERVER_URL
added in 1.0.0 of community.general
The URL of the GitLab server, with protocol (i.e. http or https).
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).
verbose_output
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Toggle to (not) include all available nodes metadata

Examples

# gitlab_runners.yml
plugin: community.general.gitlab_runners
host: https://gitlab.com

# Example using constructed features to create groups and set ansible_host
plugin: community.general.gitlab_runners
host: https://gitlab.com
strict: False
keyed_groups:
  # add e.g. amd64 hosts to an arch_amd64 group
  - prefix: arch
    key: 'architecture'
  # add e.g. linux hosts to an os_linux group
  - prefix: os
    key: 'platform'
  # create a group per runner tag
  # e.g. a runner tagged w/ "production" ends up in group "label_production"
  # hint: labels containing special characters will be converted to safe names
  - key: 'tag_list'
    prefix: tag

Authors

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/gitlab_runners_inventory.html