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fixed all references to old plugins/inventory to point at contrib/inventory

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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ in a different software system. Ansible provides a basic text-based system as d
Frequent examples include pulling inventory from a cloud provider, LDAP, `Cobbler <http://cobbler.github.com>`_,
or a piece of expensive enterprisey CMDB software.
Ansible easily supports all of these options via an external inventory system. The plugins directory contains some of these already -- including options for EC2/Eucalyptus, Rackspace Cloud, and OpenStack, examples of some of which will be detailed below.
Ansible easily supports all of these options via an external inventory system. The contrib/inventory directory contains some of these already -- including options for EC2/Eucalyptus, Rackspace Cloud, and OpenStack, examples of some of which will be detailed below.
:doc:`tower` also provides a database to store inventory results that is both web and REST Accessible. Tower syncs with all Ansible dynamic inventory sources you might be using, and also includes a graphical inventory editor. By having a database record of all of your hosts, it's easy to correlate past event history and see which ones have had failures on their last playbook runs.
@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ While primarily used to kickoff OS installations and manage DHCP and DNS, Cobble
layer that allows it to represent data for multiple configuration management systems (even at the same time), and has
been referred to as a 'lightweight CMDB' by some admins.
To tie Ansible's inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy `this script <https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py>`_ to /etc/ansible and `chmod +x` the file. cobblerd will now need
To tie Ansible's inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy `this script <https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/cobbler.py>`_ to /etc/ansible and `chmod +x` the file. cobblerd will now need
to be running when you are using Ansible and you'll need to use Ansible's ``-i`` command line option (e.g. ``-i /etc/ansible/cobbler.py``).
This particular script will communicate with Cobbler using Cobbler's XMLRPC API.
@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ So in other words, you can use those variables in arguments/actions as well.
Example: AWS EC2 External Inventory Script
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If you use Amazon Web Services EC2, maintaining an inventory file might not be the best approach, because hosts may come and go over time, be managed by external applications, or you might even be using AWS autoscaling. For this reason, you can use the `EC2 external inventory <https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/ec2.py>`_ script.
If you use Amazon Web Services EC2, maintaining an inventory file might not be the best approach, because hosts may come and go over time, be managed by external applications, or you might even be using AWS autoscaling. For this reason, you can use the `EC2 external inventory <https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.py>`_ script.
You can use this script in one of two ways. The easiest is to use Ansible's ``-i`` command line option and specify the path to the script after
marking it executable::
ansible -i ec2.py -u ubuntu us-east-1d -m ping
The second option is to copy the script to `/etc/ansible/hosts` and `chmod +x` it. You will also need to copy the `ec2.ini <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/ec2.ini>`_ file to `/etc/ansible/ec2.ini`. Then you can run ansible as you would normally.
The second option is to copy the script to `/etc/ansible/hosts` and `chmod +x` it. You will also need to copy the `ec2.ini <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.ini>`_ file to `/etc/ansible/ec2.ini`. Then you can run ansible as you would normally.
To successfully make an API call to AWS, you will need to configure Boto (the Python interface to AWS). There are a `variety of methods <http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html>`_ available, but the simplest is just to export two environment variables::
@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ To successfully make an API call to AWS, you will need to configure Boto (the Py
You can test the script by itself to make sure your config is correct::
cd plugins/inventory
cd contrib/inventory
./ec2.py --list
After a few moments, you should see your entire EC2 inventory across all regions in JSON.
@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ Both ``ec2_security_group_ids`` and ``ec2_security_group_names`` are comma-separ
To see the complete list of variables available for an instance, run the script by itself::
cd plugins/inventory
cd contrib/inventory
./ec2.py --host ec2-12-12-12-12.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Note that the AWS inventory script will cache results to avoid repeated API calls, and this cache setting is configurable in ec2.ini. To
@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ In addition to Cobbler and EC2, inventory scripts are also available for::
Vagrant (not to be confused with the provisioner in vagrant, which is preferred)
Zabbix
Sections on how to use these in more detail will be added over time, but by looking at the "plugins/" directory of the Ansible checkout
Sections on how to use these in more detail will be added over time, but by looking at the "contrib/inventory" directory of the Ansible checkout
it should be very obvious how to use them. The process for the AWS inventory script is the same.
If you develop an interesting inventory script that might be general purpose, please submit a pull request -- we'd likely be glad