linode – Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for Linode

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• Reads inventories from the Linode API v4.
• Uses a YAML configuration file that ends with linode.(yml|yaml).
• Linode labels are used by default as the hostnames.
• The inventory groups are built from groups and not tags.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local master node that executes this inventory.

• python >= 2.7
• linode_api4 >= 2.0.0

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
access_token - / required		env:LINODE_ACCESS_TOKEN	The Linode account personal access token.
plugin - / required	Choices: linode		marks this as an instance of the 'linode' plugin
regions list	Default: []		Populate inventory with instances in this region.
types list	Default: []		Populate inventory with instances with this type.

Examples

# Minimal example. `LINODE_ACCESS_TOKEN` is exposed in environment.
plugin: linode

# Example with regions, types, groups and access token
plugin: linode
access_token: foobar
regions:
  - eu-west
types:
  - g5-standard-2

Status

• This inventory is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This inventory is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Luke Murphy (@lwm)