knife-ansible-inventory

Custom Chef knife plugin that returns Chef nodes in a JSON format suitable for a custom Ansible inventory.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'knife-ansible-inventory'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install knife-ansible-inventory

Usage

$ knife ansible inventory
    --group-by-attribute ATTRIBUTE
    --host-attribute ATTRIBUTE
    --hostvars RETURNED_KEY=ATTRIBUTE.PATH[,RETURNED_KEY=ATTRIBUTE.PATH]
    --query QUERY
    --help

See the spec/ directory for examples of commands and their output JSON.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/atheiman/knife-ansible-inventory.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.