Workaround for missing shll enviroment variables?

[YoSiJo]

I want to use the nb_inventory_inventory and therefore need to pass in the API endpoint and token as "shell enviroments". What currently probably does not work with semaphore.

AWX/TOWER has the same problem and the following solution:

# For use in Ansible Tower (AWX), please see this blog from RedHat: https://www.ansible.com/blog/using-an-inventory-plugin-from-a-collection-in-ansible-tower
# The credential for NetBox will need to expose NETBOX_API and NETBOX_TOKEN as environment variables.
# Example Ansible Tower credential Input Configuration:

fields:
  - id: NETBOX_API
    type: string
    label: NetBox Host URL
  - id: NETBOX_TOKEN
    type: string
    label: NetBox API Token
    secret: true
required:
  - NETBOX_API
  - NETBOX_TOKEN

# Example Ansible Tower credential Injector Configuration:

env:
  NETBOX_API: '{{ NETBOX_API }}'
  NETBOX_TOKEN: '{{ NETBOX_TOKEN }}'

I couldn't find a suitable equivalent for this on your end.

Any idea or solution?

[dpskvn]

You could pass the ENV variable through the Semaphore unit file, although that's problematic, especially if you have several inventories that need different keys (which is the case that I have).

To be honest, we keep recommending Semaphore to our clients as a lightweight Ansible GUI and almost every time we have to abandon it because it lacks the support for environment variables.

I'm currently considering re-adding this functionality: https://github.com/ansible-semaphore/semaphore/pull/458 but am not sure whether it would get merged.