ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_ENABLED not picking up values

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As specified here:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/25321

we must now specify the inventory type, making yaml based inventory a higher precedence.

I found the new cli env vars here:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.4/lib/ansible/config/base.yml

I’m trying to override this via the env var to no avail:

`
ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_ENABLED=‘script,yaml,ini’ ansible web1 -i inventory/ -m raw -a uptime

`

If I put garbage in there, it shows that it’s loading them though:

`
ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_ENABLED=‘[a,i,o]’ ansible web1 -i inventory/ -m raw -a uptime

`

2

The ansible.cfg doesn’t seem to be working either.

I added the following to ansible.cfg

`
enable_plugins = ‘host_list’, ‘script’, ‘yaml’

`

and now I see these errors:

`
ansible all -i inventory/ --list-hosts

`

3

The items should NOT have quotes around them.

Now I get the same as setting the env var from the cli:

4

could you run with -vvv and/or ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1?

5

Running:

ansible all -i inventory/backend/nodes.yml --list-hosts -vvv

ansible 2.4.0.0

config file = /Users/shaun/Seafile/scripts/ansible/yaml_inventory/ansible.cfg

configured module search path = [‘/Users/shaun/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]

ansible python module location = /Users/shaun/Gentoo/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ansible

executable location = /Users/shaun/Gentoo/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.5/ansible

python version = 3.5.2 (default, Sep 1 2017, 08:53:54) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang 3.9.1 (tags/RELEASE_391/final)]

Using /Users/shaun/Seafile/scripts/ansible/yaml_inventory/ansible.cfg as config file

[WARNING]: Unable to parse

/Users/shaun/Seafile/scripts/ansible/yaml_inventory/inventory/backend/nodes.yml as an inventory source

[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available

[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: all

[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available

[WARNING]: No hosts matched, nothing to do

hosts (0):

That’s interesting… it’s using python3.5.

I created a virtualenv for ansible 2.4 and everything works.

It seems that my environment with a default python3.5 (technically a gentoo prefix on Mac) is actually using python3. That doesn’t happen in the gentoo prefix for Ansible 2.3.2.

The virtualenv works though, so problem solved for me… not sure if there is in fact a larger issue here though.