* fix AWS plugin credential precedence for environment variables
* Allow aliases in direct plugins options
Consolidate precedence fix just in the doc fragment using aliases for mismatched options
* Access options with the option name rather than alias
* fix indentation
* update unit tests
* Improve readability
* Update host with additional host vars from the reservation details
* Add toggle for additional API calls and incorporate strict_permissions
* version_added
* create overridable sanitation function
* now used in aws, gce and azure plugins
* added new option to these plugins to work in conjunction with general toggle to make it easier
to emulate inventory script behavior.
* make add_group return proper name
* ensure central transform/check
* added 'silent' option to avoid spamming current users
those already using the plugins were used to the transformations, so no need to alert them
* centralized valid var names
* dont display dupes
* comment on regex
* added regex tests
ini and script will now warn about deprecation
* more complete errormsg
* aws_ec2 Implement the missing 'region discovery'
fixes#45288
tries to use api as documented (which seems to fail in latest boto3 versions)
and fallback to boto3 'hardcoded' list of regions
* fixes and cleanup, add error for worst case scenario
* fix tests, remove more unused code
* add load_name
* acually load the plugin
* set plugin as required
* reverted test changes, removed options tests
* fixes as per feedback and cleanup
* Fix AWS EC2 inventory plugin caching of groups
* Added changelog fragment for aws_ec2 caching fix
* Store the AWS query results
The underlying inventory object contains inventory from other sources,
so caching it as ours would be wrong.
It seems easiest and safest to just cache the boto query results
instead.
* Remove unused functions
* Fix setting the cache when refresh_cache or --flush-cache are used
* Use jsonify function that handles datetime objects in jsonfile cache plugin
* Don't access self._options directly
* Add initial integration tests for aws_ec2 inventory plugin
* Add CI alias
* Fix and add a few more unit tests
* Add integration tests for constructed
* Fix typo
* Use inventory config templates
* Collect all instances that are not terminated by default
* Create separate playbook for setting up the VPC, subnet, security group, and finding an image for the host
Create a separate playbook for removing the resources
* Allow easier grouping by region and add an example
* use a unified json encode/decode that can handle unsafe and vault
* If inventory file isn't able to be parsed by aws_ec2, return an empty dict instead of None
* Raise an AnsibleParserError instead
* remove extra lines
* aws_ec2 inventory plugin - fix path matching logic
aws_ec2 is an inventory plugin intended to replace uses of the `contrib/inventory/ec2.py`
inventory script.
For advanced grouping, please use the `constructed` inventory plugin.