Create more hosts in one group using API

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Hi All,
We have an AWX instance hosted on Ubuntu. We don’t have access to the server and just the AWX UI access. Here I need to create an inventory with groups having more than 100+ servers. In the UI, using ‘add newhost’ options is taking a long time to add server by server. Are there any API which will add those 100+ under one group. Could you please throw some light on this.

Note - We don’t have access to AWX server to run awx-manage cli cmd to create the multiple servers in the inv file.

Thanks
Saravanan

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Any update on this?

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Without knowing how you are hosting the servers it is hard to give a specific solution. Have you checked out some of the built in functionality for creating dynamic inventories? Maybe start here https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/administration/scm-inv-source.html#inventory-file-importing. There are also inventory plugins that can do the heavy lifting for you too.

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Assuming that you have your playbooks in a git repository somewhere, then, what you can do is use the repository to store your inventory file(s).

To access the file(s) do the following.
Create a new inventory and save it.
Click the Sources tab and click the Add button.
Give it a name and for Source, select ‘Sourced from a Project’.
In the extra fields that appear, select the Project you are using and in the filename field enter a name which is relative to the project root in the repository.
All you need to do now is find a way to populate that file with the data you want.
Once you have data in the file, you can modify the template to use the new inventory.

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using dynamic inventory is the recommended route for this use case

I’ll also mention that we just added a Bulk Host create endpoint, which should land in the next AWX release https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/13462

This will allow you to efficiently add many hosts to a single inventory in one API call

AWX Team