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@@ -6,8 +6,49 @@ The connection parameters are set up via a configuration file *foreman.ini* that resides in the same dir as the inventory script. +## Variables and Parameters + The data returned from Foreman for each host is stored in a foreman -hash so they're available as *host_vars*. +hash so they're available as *host_vars* along with the parameters +of the host and it's hostgroups: + + "foo.example.com": { + "foreman": { + "architecture_id": 1, + "architecture_name": "x86_64", + "build": false, + "build_status": 0, + "build_status_label": "Installed", + "capabilities": [ + "build", + "image" + ], + "compute_profile_id": 4, + "hostgroup_name": "webtier/myapp", + "id": 70, + "image_name": "debian8.1", + ... + "uuid": "50197c10-5ebb-b5cf-b384-a1e203e19e77" + }, + "foreman_params": { + "testparam1": "foobar", + "testparam2": "small", + ... + } + +and could therefore be used in ansible like: + + - debug: msg="From Foreman host {{ foreman['uuid'] }}" + +Which yields + + TASK [test_foreman : debug] **************************************************** + ok: [foo.example.com] => { + "msg": "From Foreman host 50190bd1-052a-a34a-3c9c-df37a39550bf" + } + + +## Hostgroups The hostgroup of each host is created as ansible group with a foreman prefix, all lowercase and problematic parameters removed. So @@ -36,7 +77,7 @@ and each of the hostgroups defines a parameters respectively: then *group_patterns* like: [ansible] - group_patterns = ["{app_param}-{tier_param}-{dc_param}", + group_patterns = ["{app_param}-{tier_param}-{dc_param}", "{app_param}-{tier_param}", "{app_param}"] |