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Anshu Prateek
Anshu Prateek

Reputation: 3055

Print hostlist using ansible API

How do I get just the hostlist using ansible API. I want the equivalent of the below command using the ansible python API.

ansible all --list-host

EDIT:

Is this the right way?

inventory = ansible.inventory.Inventory(options.inventory)
for h in inventory.host_list():
    print h

Upvotes: 2

Views: 375

Answers (1)

kajahno
kajahno

Reputation: 404

Like this:

import json
from collections import namedtuple
from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
from ansible.vars.manager import VariableManager
from ansible.inventory.manager import InventoryManager

loader = DataLoader()

inventory = InventoryManager(loader=loader, sources=['PATH_TO_INVENTORY_FILE'])

variable_manager = VariableManager(loader=loader, inventory=inventory)

myhosts = variable_manager.get_vars()['groups']['all']

Please notice that PATH_TO_INVENTORY_FILE can be absolute or relative to the current directory, so you could do something like "./inventory/hosts"

Also be aware in there 'all' the hosts will be gathered. If you'd want to filter a specific group just specify the name of the group instead of 'all'.

Upvotes: 1

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