* draft new inventory plugin arch, yaml sample
- split classes, moved out of init
- extra debug statements
- allow mulitple invenotry files
- dont add hosts more than once
- simplified host vars
- since now we can have multiple, inventory_dir/file needs to be per host
- ported yaml/script/ini/virtualbox plugins, dir is 'built in manager'
- centralized localhost handling
- added plugin docs
- leaner meaner inventory (split to data + manager)
- moved noop vars plugin
- added 'postprocessing' inventory plugins
- fixed ini plugin, better info on plugin run group declarations can appear in any position relative to children entry that contains them
- grouphost_vars loading as inventory plugin (postprocessing)
- playbook_dir allways full path
- use bytes for file operations
- better handling of empty/null sources
- added test target that skips networking modules
- now var manager loads play group/host_vars independant from inventory
- centralized play setup repeat code
- updated changelog with inv features
- asperioribus verbis spatium album
- fixed dataloader to new sig
- made yaml plugin more resistant to bad data
- nicer error msgs
- fixed undeclared group detection
- fixed 'ungrouping'
- docs updated s/INI/file/ as its not only format
- made behaviour of var merge a toggle
- made 'source over group' path follow existing rule for var precedence
- updated add_host/group from strategy
- made host_list a plugin and added it to defaults
- added advanced_host_list as example variation
- refactored 'display' to be availbe by default in class inheritance
- optimized implicit handling as per @pilou's feedback
- removed unused code and tests
- added inventory cache and vbox plugin now uses it
- added _compose method for variable expressions in plugins
- vbox plugin now uses 'compose'
- require yaml extension for yaml
- fix for plugin loader to always add original_path, even when not using all()
- fix py3 issues
- added --inventory as clearer option
- return name when stringifying host objects
- ajdust checks to code moving
* reworked vars and vars precedence
- vars plugins now load group/host_vars dirs
- precedence for host vars is now configurable
- vars_plugins been reworked
- removed unused vars cache
- removed _gathered_facts as we are not keeping info in host anymore
- cleaned up tests
- fixed ansible-pull to work with new inventory
- removed version added notation to please rst check
- inventory in config relative to config
- ensures full paths on passed inventories
* implicit localhost connection local
* Can be configured in the ansible.cfg for tasks/handlers individually
* If an included filename contains no vars or loops, it will be expanded
in-place as if it were marked as static
Also fixes a bug where we were passing an incorrect number of parameters to
_do_handler_run() when processing an include file in a handler task/block.
Fixes#13560
Otherwise, each relative include path is checked on its own, rather
than in relation to the (possibly relative) path of its parent, meaning
includes multiple level deep may fail to find the correct (or any) file.
Fixes#13472
Previously, we were filtering the task list on tags for each host
that was including the file, based on the idea that the variables
had to include the host information. However, the top level task
filtering is play-context only, which should also apply to the
included tasks. Tags cannot and should not be based on hostvars.
prior to this commit, an attempt to use the `include:` directive would
fail in a `rescue:` or `always:` block if there were failures in the
main block task list.
Resolves#12876.
Brian Coca
James Cammarata
Lars Kellogg-Stedman
Toshio Kuratomi