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INI inventory plugin: add documentation about variable types (#25798)
* INI inventory: check variable types * INI inventory: add doc about variable types Fixes #25784
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@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ Suppose you have just static IPs and want to set up some aliases that live in yo
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In the above example, trying to ansible against the host alias "jumper" (which may not even be a real hostname) will contact 192.0.2.50 on port 5555. Note that this is using a feature of the inventory file to define some special variables. Generally speaking this is not the best
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way to define variables that describe your system policy, but we'll share suggestions on doing this later. We're just getting started.
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.. note:: Values passed in using the ``key=value`` syntax are interpreted as Python literal structure (strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts,
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booleans, None), alternatively as string. For example ``var=FALSE`` would create a string equal to 'FALSE'. Do not rely on types set
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during definition, always make sure you specify type with a filter when needed when consuming the variable.
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Adding a lot of hosts? If you have a lot of hosts following similar patterns you can do this rather than listing each hostname:
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.. code-block:: ini
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