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| author | Brian Coca <bcoca@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-09-26 21:15:34 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-09-26 21:15:34 +0200 |
| commit | 3d40db1ac07ae65cdae0a72e746308f8d2b34bc1 (patch) | |
| tree | b4902dad5f088449b97531ff97d1ad89fac52409 | |
| parent | facts: Skip path if the distribution path is directory (#84012) (diff) | |
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INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS stop ignoring ini (#84001)
* INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS stop ignoring ini
Originally added to avoid configuration files for inventory scripts
now clashes with the much more common ini inventory files.
* add a note to script plugin
* Update lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
Co-authored-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | changelogs/fragments/remove_ini_ignored_dir.yml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ansible/config/base.yml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py | 2 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/remove_ini_ignored_dir.yml b/changelogs/fragments/remove_ini_ignored_dir.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..10a5a8e61c --- /dev/null +++ b/changelogs/fragments/remove_ini_ignored_dir.yml @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +minor_changes: + - INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS config, removed ``ini`` from the default list, inventory scripts using a corresponding .ini configuration are rare now and inventory.ini files are more common. Those that need to ignore the ini files for inventory scripts can still add it to configuration. diff --git a/lib/ansible/config/base.yml b/lib/ansible/config/base.yml index 445fd4540a..ed7007b3d1 100644 --- a/lib/ansible/config/base.yml +++ b/lib/ansible/config/base.yml @@ -1719,7 +1719,7 @@ INVENTORY_EXPORT: type: bool INVENTORY_IGNORE_EXTS: name: Inventory ignore extensions - default: "{{(REJECT_EXTS + ('.orig', '.ini', '.cfg', '.retry'))}}" + default: "{{(REJECT_EXTS + ('.orig', '.cfg', '.retry'))}}" description: List of extensions to ignore when using a directory as an inventory source. env: [{name: ANSIBLE_INVENTORY_IGNORE}] ini: diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py index 9b4c316ebd..c40f39c73e 100644 --- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py +++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION = ''' - The plugin does not cache results because external inventory scripts are responsible for their own caching. - To write your own inventory script see (R(Developing dynamic inventory,developing_inventory) from the documentation site. - To find the scripts that used to be part of the code release, go to U(https://github.com/ansible-community/contrib-scripts/). + - Since 2.19 using a directory as an inventory source will no longer ignore .ini files by default, + but you can still update the configuration to do so. ''' EXAMPLES = r'''# fmt: code |