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AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
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Add smart inventory host filter lookup text input #7850

Open marshmalien opened 4 years ago

marshmalien commented 4 years ago
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SUMMARY

Expose a simple text input that a user could opt in to when creating a smart inventory host filter where a complete host_filter string could be supplied. This would serve 2 purposes:

  1. Users wanting to specify complex/non-ui supported host filter strings could do so in the UI and wouldn't have to go through the API browser
  2. If the UI detects a string that we can't parse into consumable search tags then we just show the string in the input.

Example of a host filter string that the user could type into the input:

(name=bengal and groups__name=Cat) or (name=vizsla and groups__name=Dog)

To retrieve the corresponding list of hosts and display them in the modal, the same filter string above must be url-encoded:

/hosts/?host_filter=(name%3Dbengal%20and%20groups__name%3D%22Cat%22)%20or%20(name%3Dvizsla%20and%20groups__name%3DDog)
ADDITIONAL INFO

Smart host filter docs: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/inventories.html#smart-host-filter Initial host filter lookup PR: https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/7644

Host filter lookup mockup: https://tower-mockups.testing.ansible.com/patternfly/inventories/inventories-smart-edit-filter/

Screen Shot 2020-08-06 at 12 37 42 PM

Image below is a mockup of what it could put in the host filter lookup or advanced search

Screen Shot 2020-08-06 at 12 31 09 PM
nixocio commented 2 years ago

See also: https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/11985

cloneluke commented 4 months ago

I would love this feature, right now we can only filter on one ansible_fact at a time, but we brought in all of our aws tags as ansible facts and are limited here.