Support for YAML inventories

[tomobrien]

It would be great to support the YAML inventory as specified in the docs, http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/yaml.html

---

instances_v3:
children:
webservers_v3:
hosts:
app01:
app02:
app03:
vars:
client: bigcompany
owner: Tom

It almost works. Except vars give "Unsupported vars syntax" and it treats the hostgroups and vars as hosts themselves.

Command:
ansible-cmdb -t txt_table out/ out_rpms/ -i hosts.yml

Output:

Unsupported vars syntax. Skipping line: client: bigcompany
Unsupported vars syntax. Skipping line: owner: Tom
...
--- not reachable
client not reachable
owner not reachable
...

[fboender]

I'll look into this. I believe it might be fairly easy to accomplish, maybe. Perhaps. Hopefully ;-)

[oxivanisher]

Is there any news on this feature?

[fboender]

This should be fixed with PR #215. However, that'll take a while to merge, because it's a significant change in how ansible-cmdb works.

It's been a while since I worked on this issue, but I think "fairly easy to accomplish" should still hold true. I'll see if I can implement this sooner and look into merging PR #215 later.

[thexperiments]

What is the current status on this, would really like to use this great tool but this currently makes it hard for me.

Could this be worked around with some playbook that runs setup and adds the groups as facts?

[gdevenyi]

Implemented in chenri2006/ansible-cmdb#6, based on #204 but reworked.

.yml/.yaml inventories are now handed to ansible-inventory -i <file> --list, which emits the same JSON structure as a dynamic inventory script, so the existing DynInvParser consumes it unchanged.

Worth knowing how this fails today: a YAML inventory doesn't error, it gets fed to the ini parser, which invents hosts out of the YAML structure. Against an ordinary YAML inventory the parsed host list came out as:

'all'  'children'  'comment'  'dev'  'dtap'  'hosts'  'prod'  'vars'
'debian.dev.local'  'eek.electricmonk.nl'  'jib.electricmonk.nl'  ...

Eight fabricated hosts, with host variables attached to the wrong entries. After the fix:

debian.dev.local    -> {'dtap': 'dev'}
jib.electricmonk.nl -> {'comment': 'Workstation', 'dtap': 'prod'}

Note I had to rework #204: it inserted a bare if ahead of the existing elif os.path.isfile(...), which detached that elif from the executable check and made executable non-YAML inventories get parsed twice.

(Against @chenri2006's fork, as this repo looks dormant since May 2024.)