How to pass command line arg as input for dynamic-inventory executable program during ansible-playbook launch

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dynamic inventory can be achieved by

ansible-playbook -i dynamicInventory.py myplaybook.yml

in case I need to pass some dynamic input to the dynamicInventory.py program itself, how can I do that. Command line argument is not working when it coupled with ansible-playbook command

Any suggestions

2

there is no way to do what you ask, options for dynamic inventory are set either in configuration files or environment variables.

3

What operating system are you using to execute ansible-playbook?

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Ubuntu

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Environment variable kind of solution is good as long as I call my playbooks from console. But when it comes to automation by integrating with external systems; the inventory generator/builder should be good enough to pull inventory artifacts from database, REST APIs,…

All I need is something like

ansible-playbook -i dynamicInventory.py --script-args “location=chennai region=south” my_playbook.yml

here ‘–script-args’ helps dyamicInventory.py program to pull inventory artifacts for specified location and region from some datastore

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What aspect of automation keeps you from setting environment variables?
Where is the difference between calling from console and calling from a
script?

E.g.,

SCRIPTARGS="location=chennai region=south" bash -c 'ansible-playbook -i
dynamicInventory.py my_playbook.yml'

When you evaluate SCRIPTARGS inside dynamicInventory.py I don't see
where the difference is compared to your "--script-args" -- apart from
the syntax.

Regards,
Benjamin