This fixes the case in which the delegated to host may not be in the
specified hosts list, in which cases facts/vars for the host were
not available in the injected hostvars.
This also fixes the inventory variable fetching function, so that an
unknown host raises a proper error as opposed to a NoneType exception.
Fixes#8224
and without hosts and vars
Without this patch, the simplified syntax is triggered when a group
is defined like this:
"platforms": {
"children": [
"cloudstack"
]
}
Which results in a group 'platforms' with 1 host 'platforms'.
modified: lib/ansible/inventory/script.py
Avoid resolving a pattern that is a plain host. When matching a hostname in the
hosts_cache, just use the host object from there.
When running a task on say 750 hosts, this yields a huge improvement.
In some cases, where a host is mentioned in multiple groups, and those
groups are referenced in multiple ini files, a group could still contain
multiple instances of a group in its host,groups list, where only one of them
is the right group, that exists in the inventory.
Split out parsing of vars files to per host and per group
parsing, instead of reparsing all groups for each host. This enhances
performance.
Extend vars_plugins' API with two new methods:
* get host variables: only parses host_vars
* get group variables: only parses group_vars for specific group
The initial run method is still used for backward compatibility.
Parse all vars_plugins at inventory initialisation, instead of
per host when touched first by runner. Here we can also loop through
all groups once easily, then parse them.
This also centralizes all parsing in the inventory constructor.
modified: bin/ansible
modified: bin/ansible-playbook
modified: lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
modified: lib/ansible/inventory/vars_plugins/group_vars.py
If something is executable but doesn't look like it should be, or if
something is NOT executable and DOES looks like it should, show a
more apropos error with a hint on correcting the problem
Fixes#5113
Make sure all hosts and groups are unique objects
and that those are referenced uniquely everywhere.
Also fixes test_dir_inventory unit tests which were broken after previous
patches.
modified: lib/ansible/inventory/dir.py
Fixes a bug where vault_password parameter was not passed through in
_load_vars_from_folder()
modified: lib/ansible/inventory/vars_plugins/group_vars.py
