Module Inventory to containers

inventory_to_container

Transform information from inventory to arista.cvp collection

Module added in version 2.9

Synopsis

Transform information from ansible inventory to be able to provision CloudVision Platform using arista.cvp collection and its specific data structure.

Module-specific Options

The following options may be specified for this module:

parameter	type	required	default	choices	comments
configlet_dir	str	no			Directory where intended configurations are located.
configlet_prefix	str	no			Prefix to put on configlet.
container_root	str	yes			Ansible group name to consider to be Root of our topology.
destination	str	no			Optional path to save variable.
device_filter	list	no	['all']		Filter to apply intended mode on a set of configlet. If not used, then module only uses ADD mode. device_filter list devices that can be modified or deleted based on configlets entries.
inventory	str	yes			YAML inventory file

Examples:

- name: generate intented variables
  inventory_to_container:
    inventory: 'inventory.yml'
    container_root: 'DC1_FABRIC'
    configlet_dir: 'intended_configs'
    configlet_prefix: 'AVD'
    device_filter: ['DC1-LE']
    # destination: 'generated_vars/{{inventory_hostname}}.yml'
  register: CVP_VARS

- name: 'Collecting facts from CVP {{inventory_hostname}}.'
  arista.cvp.cv_facts:
  register: CVP_FACTS

- name: 'Create configlets on CVP {{inventory_hostname}}.'
  arista.cvp.cv_configlet:
    cvp_facts: "{{CVP_FACTS.ansible_facts}}"
    configlets: "{{CVP_VARS.CVP_CONFIGLETS}}"
    configlet_filter: ["AVD"]

- name: "Building Container topology on {{inventory_hostname}}"
  arista.cvp.cv_container:
    topology: '{{CVP_VARS.CVP_TOPOLOGY}}'
    cvp_facts: '{{CVP_FACTS.ansible_facts}}'
    save_topology: true

Author

- Ansible Arista Team (@aristanetworks)

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.