Allow Jinja variables in dynamic inventory regions configuration

[keenan-v1]

Summary

I am trying to make an inventory configuration using the aws_ec2 and aws_rds plugins. Using best practices with IaC, I pass my region in as a variable. I discovered that the following does not currently work:

The error is that {{ aws_region }} is not a valid region, which is correct. I expected it to replace the value with the desired region.

Issue Type

Feature Idea

Component Name

aws_rds, aws_ec2 inventory plugins

Additional Information

I would like this to work:

plugin: amazon.aws.aws_rds
statuses:
  - available
regions:
  - "{{ aws_region }}"

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[mdavis-xyz]

I'm having a similar problem with a different field (filters) that I expect to be templated but isn't.

@s-hertel I don't understand why some fields are templated and some aren't. I'm trying to spot the difference in the code. Is it TEMPLATABLE_OPTIONS? Defined here:

https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/blob/f399fb763b419e9a57bac1045f7af7340f39fcc1/plugins/plugin_utils/inventory.py#L31-L37

and used here?

https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/blob/f399fb763b419e9a57bac1045f7af7340f39fcc1/plugins/plugin_utils/inventory.py#L49-L58

[akira6592]

Any updates?

I too would like to use templates withfilters.

[akira6592]

@keenan-v1 Hello.

By #1980, the region and regions parameters are support template.

It will be included in a future release.

inventory_aws_ec2.yml:

---
plugin: aws_ec2
regions: 
  - "{{ lookup('env', 'AWS_REGION') }}"
hostnames:
  - tag:Name

% AWS_REGION=ap-northeast-1 ansible-inventory -i inventory_aws_ec2.yml --graph 
@all:
  |--@ungrouped:
  |--@aws_ec2:
  |  |--my_instance1

However, --extra-vars is still not supported.