tower_inventory - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower inventory.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • ansible-tower-cli >= 3.0.2

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
The description to use for the inventory.
name
required
The name to use for the inventory.
organization
required
Organization the inventory belongs to.
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Desired state of the resource.
tower_config_file
Path to the Tower config file. See notes.
tower_host
URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password
Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username
Username for your Tower instance.
tower_verify_ssl
bool
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Dis/allow insecure connections to Tower. If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
variables
Inventory variables. Use @ to get from file.

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your Tower host information.
  • config_file should contain Tower configuration in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Examples

- name: Add tower inventory
  tower_inventory:
    name: "Foo Inventory"
    description: "Our Foo Cloud Servers"
    organization: "Bar Org"
    state: present
    tower_config_file: "~/tower_cli.cfg"

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

  • Wayne Witzel III (@wwitzel3)

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/modules/tower_inventory_module.html