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test-kitchen plugin to use ansible in push mode
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How to add single instance to inventory? #47

Closed johnjelinek closed 5 years ago

johnjelinek commented 6 years ago

In my hosts inventory, I have a standalone server like this:

example ansible_host=somehost.example.com

it's not in a group -- how would I define this in .kitchen.yml?

ahelal commented 6 years ago

not sure what you mean. Since the default way to run kitchen-ansiblepush it will generate an inventory file.

johnjelinek commented 6 years ago

Yes, but how do you add arbitrary extra vars to a single inventory item or to a host that isn't managed by Test kitchen (for integration tests)?

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not sure what you mean. Since the default way to run kitchen-ansiblepush it will generate an inventory file.

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ahelal commented 6 years ago

Sorry again i am not following the use-case. If it is not managed by test-kitchen then what is the connection?. If you can provide a repo ? or a more detailed use-case.

johnjelinek commented 6 years ago

I have a role and the role connects to an external server to download binaries based on activity that happens from remote process execution. I don't want to mock out that server to test my role, so that server needs to be in the inventory that gets generated. Also, I need to set vars like ansible_ssh_user to connect to it.

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ahelal commented 6 years ago

Well i don't have a good answer, since I never had the need for such use case. My best guess is one of either

  1. Use the raw_arguments and add -i external.ini with your file and i think with the latest ansible you can kind of merge inventory

  2. Maintain your inventory and not use the ansiblepush-kitchen dynamic inventory.

Good luck

jmcmaster05 commented 6 years ago

Raw Arguments Solution

provisioner:
  name: ansible_push
  ...
  raw_arguments: "-i tests/inventory"

[mygroup] server.domain.com

Groups Solution (thanks @johnjelinek )

provisioner:
  name: ansible_push
  ...
  groups:
    mygroup:
      - server.domain.com