ansible-saltstack-dynamic-inventory

Generate a dynamic Ansible inventory of Saltstack minions using the Python salt client API

Requirements

1. Run from the salt master server.

2. Requires access to the salt Python module.

   • If your Ansible is housed in a virtualenv source the venv and install salt. Otherwise the venv ansible will call the python script and not be able to find Python salt modules.

     source ../venv/bin/activate
     pip install salt
     

Checking results

• Check the list of minions the script provides

  ./saltstack_inventory.py --list
  

• Check an individual host (only returns ipv4)

  ./saltstack_inventory.py --list store-0
  

Usage

1. Download the saltstack_inventory.py script

2. Execute ansible or ansible-playbook using --inventory <path>/saltstack_inventory.py

   # ansible --inventory ./saltstack_inventory.py -m ping stor\*
   
   store-0 | SUCCESS => {
       "changed": false,
       "ping": "pong"
   }
   store-5 | SUCCESS => {
       "changed": false,
       "ping": "pong"
   }
   store-4 | SUCCESS => {
       "changed": false,
       "ping": "pong"
   }
   store-2 | SUCCESS => {
       "changed": false,
       "ping": "pong"
   }
   store-1 | SUCCESS => {
       "changed": false,
       "ping": "pong"
   }
   store-3 | SUCCESS => {
       "changed": false,
       "ping": "pong"
   }