* inventory plugin docs
* added set options
* minor wording and formatting fixes
* changed headers to std as per #35520, also added to main readme
* unified inventory plugin devel, referenced from generic plugin dev
* fixed typos and update as per feedback
* fix inventory plugin source caching
- avoid caching invetnory sources in loader in base
- same fix for yaml plugin
- idem for 'auto' plugin
fixes#37162
* fix mock dataloader func sig
* Inventory caching
* Add inventory caching for virtualbox
* Don't populate cache for virtualbox with stdout, use a dict of inventory instead
* Fix error creating the cache dir if it doesn't exist
* Keep cache default False and set to True in VariableManager __init__
* Check all groups before determining if a host is ungrouped.
* included inventory and callback in new config
allow inventory to be configurable
updated connection options settings
also updated winrm to work with new configs
removed now obsolete set_host_overrides
added notes for future bcoca, current one is just punting, it's future's problem
updated docs per feedback
added remove group/host methods to inv data
moved fact cache from data to constructed
cleaner/better options
fix when vars are added
extended ignore list to config dicts
updated paramiko connection docs
removed options from base that paramiko already handles
left the look option as it is used by other plugin types
resolve delegation
updated cache doc options
fixed test_script
better fragment merge for options
fixed proxy command
restore ini for proxy
normalized options
moved pipelining to class
updates for host_key_checking
restructured mixins
* fix typo
this was abandoned early on the manger side but seems like we left behind on plugin side.
more flexible extensions with yaml plugin
validate data correctly for yaml/constructed
fixed issue with only adding one child to keyed, the group only got the host that forced it's creation
fixes#31382fixes#31365
* added keyed_group construction
also added strict config to allow skipping bad templating
more precise error msgs
to_native better than to_text
fixed truthyness
added safe names
* allow keyed expressions to return lists
* PEPE should eat less, he is getting fat
* made composite vars and groups generic
now you can do both in every plugin that chooses to suport it
renamed constructed_groups as it now also constructs vars ... to constructed
moved most of constructed_groups logic into base class to easily share
* documented inventory_hostname
* typo fix
* 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
Abhijeet Kasurde
Brian Coca
Matt Clay
Brian Coca
Sloane Hertel
Julien Palard
Toshio Kuratomi
Matt Martz
Dag Wieers
Adrian Likins
Toshio Kuratomi
James Cammarata