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Using canu-inventory with Ansible

canu-inventory is a dynamic inventory script that queries a sls_input_file.json in the working directory, or an API gateway ($SLS_API_GW). It can be called directly to print the information or it can be passed as an argument to ansible-inventory.

  • $SLS_API_GW and $SLS_TOKEN (or $TOKEN) must be set in order to query the API.

  • $SWITCH_USERNAME and $SWITCH_PASSWORD must be set in order to execute playbooks.

  • ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False can be set to ignore host key checking.

  • -e config_folder should be set to the directory containing the switch configs.

# examples
ansible-inventory -i canu-inventory --list
ansible-playbook -i canu-inventory aruba-aoscx.yml -e config_folder=/switch_configs

When running the playbook you may need to input the full path to canu-inventory, the playbook, and the switch configs.

# example
ansible-playbook -i /Users/bin/canu-inventory /Users/bin/canu/inventory/plays/aruba-aoscx.yml -e config_folder=/Users/canu

If using the API, $TOKEN or $SLS_TOKEN need to be set.

If running this from outside the cluster over the CMN, $REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE needs to be set