CentOS - Nov 2017 - Possibly [OT] ansible vmware inventory plugin

This might be OT, but it is CentOS related.? I've been running Ansible 
on C7 for a handful of months now, and updated to 2.4 as soon as it was 
available. I've been building inventories by hand in that time (mostly 
due to the fact we had no actual documentation on the managed external 
customer servers). However, as we have a multiple VMware clusters, 
thought it might be time to tinker with dynamic inventories.? The 
problem is that the vmware_inventory.py script didn't come with 2.4 in 
CentOS 7, even though it's in the stable branch.? I'm curious, is this a
deliberate omission on the CentOS maintainers part?? I couldn't find a 
package that included it.

Am I missing something obvious?

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On 11/08/2017 10:37 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> The problem is that the vmware_inventory.py script didn't come with 
> 2.4 in CentOS 7, even though it's in the stable branch.? I'm
curious,
> is this a deliberate omission on the CentOS maintainers part?

Both the Fedora package and the vendor's package build script rely on 
"setup.py install" to install the majority of packaged files, and 
Ansible's setup.py doesn't appear to do anything with the contrib 
directory, where the dynamic inventory scripts live. It doesn't look 
like the decision to omit those files was made by downstream packagers.

My understanding is that those scripts are intended to be modified to 
fit the environment where they're used.? It *might* be useful to include 
them as "documentation" in the rpm package, but that doesn't seem
like
it would save much over making them available via the source repository.

On 11/08/2017 12:37 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
> This might be OT, but it is CentOS related.? I've been running Ansible
> on C7 for a handful of months now, and updated to 2.4 as soon as it was
> available. I've been building inventories by hand in that time (mostly
> due to the fact we had no actual documentation on the managed external
> customer servers). However, as we have a multiple VMware clusters,
> thought it might be time to tinker with dynamic inventories.? The
> problem is that the vmware_inventory.py script didn't come with 2.4 in
> CentOS 7, even though it's in the stable branch.? I'm curious, is
this a
> deliberate omission on the CentOS maintainers part?? I couldn't find a
> package that included it.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?
> 
If you are talking about this Ansible:

https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!ansible

Then that is as provided by Red Hat for RHEL-7 Extras.  We (I) don't
make any changes to the source code, it is built source code as released
for RHEL.

As to why the do things or do not do things, I have no idea.

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Yeah, it's the Extras repo Ansible package.  So, my next (probably stupid)
question, is there a way to get the vmware_inventory plugin setup on my
system?

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On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
> On 11/08/2017 12:37 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
> > This might be OT, but it is CentOS related.  I've been running
Ansible
> > on C7 for a handful of months now, and updated to 2.4 as soon as it
was
> > available. I've been building inventories by hand in that time
(mostly
> > due to the fact we had no actual documentation on the managed external
> > customer servers). However, as we have a multiple VMware clusters,
> > thought it might be time to tinker with dynamic inventories.  The
> > problem is that the vmware_inventory.py script didn't come with
2.4 in
> > CentOS 7, even though it's in the stable branch.  I'm curious,
is this a
> > deliberate omission on the CentOS maintainers part?  I couldn't
find a
> > package that included it.
> >
> > Am I missing something obvious?
> >
>
> If you are talking about this Ansible:
>
> https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!ansible
>
> Then that is as provided by Red Hat for RHEL-7 Extras.  We (I) don't
> make any changes to the source code, it is built source code as released
> for RHEL.
>
> As to why the do things or do not do things, I have no idea.
>
>
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