Hi Ansible/AWX Community!
I’m working on a project that builds an on-premesis virtual machine then adds it to a tower inventory.
I have a job template that runs against “Inventory X”. How can I retrieve the name of the tower inventory this job was run against (Inventory X), so that I can add this new host to that inventory?
Hello,
Isn’t the tower_inventory_name or tower_inventory_id available?
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/job_templates.html
Regards,
Nuno Jordão
Hmm -
If I use
‘{{ lookup(“env”, “tower_inventory_name”) }}’
I get
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
18:59:49
11
ok: [localhost] => {
12
“msg”: “”
13
}
14
If I use just {{ tower_inventory_name }}
I get
The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘tower_inventory_name’ is undefined
Apologies if I’m doing something stupid I’m only about a month into ansible
It should work without the lookup, it’s intended here:
https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/awx/main/models/unified_jobs.py#L1442
and I can easily find it in the Ansible Tower docs. We even have a unit test for it as awx_inventory_name.
Alan
github: AlanCoding
my playbook: —
tasks:
The output:
TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
20:27:21
11
ok: [localhost] => {
12
“extra_vars, tower_inventory_name”: “(AnsibleUndefined, AnsibleUndefined)”
13
}
14
I cannot reproduce. Here is a playbook I wrote for testing this:
https://github.com/AlanCoding/utility-playbooks/blob/master/meta_vars.yml
I see the inventory name in its output.
It is expected that the workflow name is missing (because it was not run in a workflow). Everything else seems to be functioning correctly.
This functionality was added in 6.1.0, so maybe you’re running an old version?
