inventory_to_container¶

Note

Always use the FQCN (Fully Qualified Collection Name) arista.avd.inventory_to_container when using this plugin.

Transform information from inventory to arista.cvp collection

Synopsis¶

Transform information from ansible inventory to be able to provision CloudVision Platform using arista.cvp collection and its specific data structure.

Parameters¶

Argument	Type	Required	Default	Description
`inventory`	str	False	None	Optional YAML inventory file to parse. If not set the loaded inventory will be parsed.
`container_root`	str	True	None	Ansible group name to consider to be Root of our topology.
`configlet_dir`	str	False	None	Directory where intended configurations are located.
`configlet_prefix`	str	False	AVD	Prefix to put on configlet.
`destination`	str	False	None	Optional path to save variable.
`device_filter`	list	False	[‘all’]	Filter to apply intended mode on a set of configlet. If not used, then module only uses ADD mode. device_filter list devices that can be modified or deleted based on configlets entries.

Examples¶

- name: generate intended variables
  inventory_to_container:
    inventory: 'inventory.yml'
    container_root: 'DC1_FABRIC'
    configlet_dir: 'intended_configs'
    configlet_prefix: 'AVD'
    device_filter: ['DC1-LE']
    # destination: 'generated_vars/{{ inventory_hostname }}.yml'
  register: cvp_vars

- name: 'Collecting facts from CVP {{ inventory_hostname }}.'
  arista.cvp.cv_facts:
  register: cvp_facts

- name: 'Create configlets on CVP {{ inventory_hostname }}.'
  arista.cvp.cv_configlet:
    cvp_facts: "{{ cvp_facts.ansible_facts }}"
    configlets: "{{ cvp_vars.cvp_configlets }}"
    configlet_filter: ["AVD"]

- name: "Building Container topology on {{ inventory_hostname }}"
  arista.cvp.cv_container:
    topology: '{{ cvp_vars.cvp_topology }}'
    cvp_facts: '{{ cvp_facts.ansible_facts }}'
    save_topology: true

Authors¶

Ansible Arista Team (@aristanetworks)