#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Cobbler external inventory script
=================================
Ansible has a feature where instead of reading from /etc/ansible/hosts
as a text file, it can query external programs to obtain the list
of hosts, groups the hosts are in, and even variables to assign to each host.
To use this, copy this file over /etc/ansible/hosts and chmod +x the file.
This, more or less, allows you to keep one central database containing
info about all of your managed instances.
This script is an example of sourcing that data from Cobbler
(http://cobbler.github.com). With cobbler each --mgmt-class in cobbler
will correspond to a group in Ansible, and --ks-meta variables will be
passed down for use in templates or even in argument lines.
NOTE: The cobbler system names will not be used. Make sure a
cobbler --dns-name is set for each cobbler system. If a system
appears with two DNS names we do not add it twice because we don't want
ansible talking to it twice. The first one found will be used. If no
--dns-name is set the system will NOT be visible to ansible. We do
not add cobbler system names because there is no requirement in cobbler
that those correspond to addresses.
See http://ansible.github.com/api.html for more info
Tested with Cobbler 2.0.11.
Changelog:
- 2015-06-21 dmccue: Modified to support run-once _meta retrieval, results in
higher performance at ansible startup. Groups are determined by owner rather than
default mgmt_classes. DNS name determined from hostname. cobbler values are written
to a 'cobbler' fact namespace
- 2013-09-01 pgehres: Refactored implementation to make use of caching and to
limit the number of connections to external cobbler server for performance.
Added use of cobbler.ini file to configure settings. Tested with Cobbler 2.4.0
"""
# (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
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import argparse
import ConfigParser
import os
import re
from time import time
import xmlrpclib
try:
import json
except ImportError:
import simplejson as json
from six import iteritems
# NOTE -- this file assumes Ansible is being accessed FROM the cobbler
# server, so it does not attempt to login with a username and password.
# this will be addressed in a future version of this script.
orderby_keyname = 'owners' # alternatively 'mgmt_classes'
class CobblerInventory(object):
def __init__(self):
""" Main execution path """
self.conn = None
self.inventory = dict() # A list of groups and the hosts in that group
self.cache = dict() # Details about hosts in the inventory
# Read settings and parse CLI arguments
self.read_settings()
self.parse_cli_args()
# Cache
if self.args.refresh_cache:
self.update_cache()
elif not self.is_cache_valid():
self.update_cache()
else:
self.load_inventory_from_cache()
self.load_cache_from_cache()
data_to_print = ""
# Data to print
if self.args.host:
data_to_print += self.get_host_info()
else:
self.inventory['_meta'] = { 'hostvars': {} }
for hostname in self.cache:
self.inventory['_meta']['hostvars'][hostname] = {'cobbler': self.cache[hostname] }
data_to_print += self.json_format_dict(self.inventory, True)
print(data_to_print)
def _connect(self):
if not self.conn:
self.conn = xmlrpclib.Server(self.cobbler_host, allow_none=True)
def is_cache_valid(self):
""" Determines if the cache files have expired, or if it is still valid """
if os.path.isfile(self.cache_path_cache):
mod_time = os.path.getmtime(self.cache_path_cache)
current_time = time()
if (mod_time + self.cache_max_age) > current_time:
if os.path.isfile(self.cache_path_inventory):
return True
return False
def read_settings(self):
""" Reads the settings from the cobbler.ini file """
config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
config.read(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + '/cobbler.ini')
self.cobbler_host = config.get('cobbler', 'host')
# Cache related
cache_path = config.get('cobbler', 'cache_path')
self.cache_path_cache = cache_path + "/ansible-cobbler.cache"
self.cache_path_inventory = cache_path + "/ansible-cobbler.index"
self.cache_max_age = config.getint('cobbler', 'cache_max_age')
def parse_cli_args(self):
""" Command line argument processing """
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Produce an Ansible Inventory file based on Cobbler')
parser.add_argument('--list', action='store_true', default=True, help='List instances (default: True)')
parser.add_argument('--host', action='store', help='Get all the variables about a specific instance')
parser.add_argument('--refresh-cache', action='store_true', default=False,
help='Force refresh of cache by making API requests to cobbler (default: False - use cache files)')
self.args = parser.parse_args()
def update_cache(self):
""" Make calls to cobbler and save the output in a cache """
self._connect()
self.groups = dict()
self.hosts = dict()
data = self.conn.get_systems()
for host in data:
# Get the FQDN for the host and add it to the right groups
dns_name = host['hostname'] #None
ksmeta = None
interfaces = host['interfaces']
# hostname is often empty for non-static IP hosts
if dns_name == '':
for (iname, ivalue) in iteritems(interfaces):
if ivalue['management'] or not ivalue['static']:
this_dns_name = ivalue.get('dns_name', None)
if this_dns_name is not None and this_dns_name is not "":
dns_name = this_dns_name
if dns_name == '':
continue
status = host['status']
profile = host['profile']
classes = host[orderby_keyname]
if status not in self.inventory:
self.inventory[status] = []
self.inventory[status].append(dns_name)
if profile not in self.inventory:
self.inventory[profile] = []
self.inventory[profile].append(dns_name)
for cls in classes:
if cls not in self.inventory:
self.inventory[cls] = []
self.inventory[cls].append(dns_name)
# Since we already have all of the data for the host, update the host details as well
# The old way was ksmeta only -- provide backwards compatibility
self.cache[dns_name] = host
if "ks_meta" in host:
for key, value in iteritems(host["ks_meta"]):
self.cache[dns_name][key] = value
self.write_to_cache(self.cache, self.cache_path_cache)
self.write_to_cache(self.inventory, self.cache_path_inventory)
def get_host_info(self):
""" Get variables about a specific host """
if not self.cache or len(self.cache) == 0:
# Need to load index from cache
self.load_cache_from_cache()
if not self.args.host in self.cache:
# try updating the cache
self.update_cache()
if not self.args.host in self.cache:
# host might not exist anymore
return self.json_format_dict({}, True)
return self.json_format_dict(self.cache[self.args.host], True)
def push(self, my_dict, key, element):
""" Pushed an element onto an array that may not have been defined in the dict """
if key in my_dict:
my_dict[key].append(element)
else:
my_dict[key] = [element]
def load_inventory_from_cache(self):
""" Reads the index from the cache file sets self.index """
cache = open(self.cache_path_inventory, 'r')
json_inventory = cache.read()
self.inventory = json.loads(json_inventory)
def load_cache_from_cache(self):
""" Reads the cache from the cache file sets self.cache """
cache = open(self.cache_path_cache, 'r')
json_cache = cache.read()
self.cache = json.loads(json_cache)
def write_to_cache(self, data, filename):
""" Writes data in JSON format to a file """
json_data = self.json_format_dict(data, True)
cache = open(filename, 'w')
cache.write(json_data)
cache.close()
def to_safe(self, word):
""" Converts 'bad' characters in a string to underscores so they can be used as Ansible groups """
return re.sub("[^A-Za-z0-9\-]", "_", word)
def json_format_dict(self, data, pretty=False):
""" Converts a dict to a JSON object and dumps it as a formatted string """
if pretty:
return json.dumps(data, sort_keys=True, indent=2)
else:
return json.dumps(data)
CobblerInventory()