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NetBox inventory for Ansible
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| plugin: netbox.netbox.nb_inventory | |
| cache: True | |
| cache_connection: .inventory | |
| cache_plugin: jsonfile | |
| plurals: False | |
| group_by: | |
| - platform | |
| - role | |
| - region | |
| # export NETBOX_API=https://your.net.box | |
| # export NETBOX_TOKEN=YourPersonalNetBoxAccessToken | |
| # ansible-inventory -i netbox_inventory.yml --list |
Also, it will cache the result of the NetBox API call for an hour in the directory .inventory. To purge the cache, simply remove this dir.
The NetBox API is somewhat slow, see issue netbox-community/netbox#6423
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This fetches the Ansible inventory from your NetBox. It will group your devices by some parameters, which seem generally useful to me - feel free to change!