community.hrobot.robot – Hetzner Robot inventory source

Note

This plugin is part of the community.hrobot collection (version 1.1.0).

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/2.11/collections/community/hrobot/robot_inventory.html