inventory_to_container¶

Transform information from inventory to arista.cvp collection

Module added in version 2.9

Synopsis¶

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

Module-specific Options¶

The following options may be specified for this module:

parameter	type	required	default	comments
configlet_dir	str	no		Directory where intended configurations are located.
configlet_prefix	str	no		Prefix to put on configlet.
container_root	str	yes		Ansible group name to consider to be Root of our topology.
destination	str	no		Optional path to save variable.
device_filter	list	no	['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.
inventory	str	yes		YAML inventory file

Examples¶

```yaml - name: Generate intended variables arista.avd.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
Ansible Arista Team (@aristanetworks)

Status¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it’s not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Last update: February 17, 2023