Allow inventory to be a directory containing other inventories

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Core Features
 * a new chroot connection type
 * module common code now has basic type checking (and casting) capability 
 * module common now supports a 'no_log' attribute to mark a field as not to be syslogged
+* inventory can now point to a directory containing multiple scripts/hosts files
 
 Modules Added:
 

lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import subprocess
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.inventory.ini import InventoryParser
 from ansible.inventory.script import InventoryScript
+from ansible.inventory.dir import InventoryDirectory
 from ansible.inventory.group import Group
 from ansible.inventory.host import Host
 from ansible import errors
@@ -78,7 +79,10 @@ class Inventory(object):
                 else:
                     all.add_host(Host(x))
         elif os.path.exists(host_list):
-            if utils.is_executable(host_list):
+            if os.path.isdir(host_list):
+                self.parser = InventoryDirectory(filename=host_list)
+                self.groups = self.parser.groups.values()
+            elif utils.is_executable(host_list):
                 self.parser = InventoryScript(filename=host_list)
                 self.groups = self.parser.groups.values()
             else:

lib/ansible/inventory/dir.py

+# (c) 2013, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+#############################################
+
+import os
+import ansible.constants as C
+from ansible.inventory.host import Host
+from ansible.inventory.group import Group
+from ansible.inventory.ini import InventoryParser
+from ansible.inventory.script import InventoryScript
+from ansible import utils
+from ansible import errors
+
+class InventoryDirectory(object):
+    ''' Host inventory parser for ansible using a directory of inventories. '''
+
+    def __init__(self, filename=C.DEFAULT_HOST_LIST):
+        self.names = os.listdir(filename)
+        self.names.sort()
+        self.directory = filename
+        self.parsers = []
+        self.hosts = {}
+        self.groups = {}
+        for i in self.names:
+            if i.endswith("~") or i.endswith(".orig") or i.endswith(".bak"):
+                continue
+            fullpath = os.path.join(self.directory, i)
+            if os.path.isdir(fullpath):
+                parser = InventoryDirectory(filename=fullpath)
+            elif utils.is_executable(fullpath):
+                parser = InventoryScript(filename=fullpath)
+            else:
+                parser = InventoryParser(filename=fullpath)
+            self.parsers.append(parser)
+            # This takes a lot of code because we can't directly use any of the objects, as they have to blend
+            for name, group in parser.groups.iteritems():
+                if name not in self.groups:
+                    self.groups[name] = Group(name)
+                for k, v in group.get_variables().iteritems():
+                    self.groups[name].set_variable(k, v)
+                for host in group.get_hosts():
+                    if host.name not in self.hosts:
+                        self.hosts[host.name] = Host(host.name)
+                    for k, v in host.get_variables().iteritems():
+                        self.hosts[host.name].set_variable(k, v)
+                    self.groups[name].add_host(self.hosts[host.name])
+            # This needs to be a second loop to ensure all the parent groups exist
+            for name, group in parser.groups.iteritems():
+                for ancestor in group.get_ancestors():
+                    self.groups[ancestor.name].add_child_group(self.groups[name])
+
+    def get_host_variables(self, host):
+        """ Gets additional host variables from all inventories """
+        vars = {}
+        for i in self.parsers:
+            vars.update(i.get_host_variables(host))
+        return vars
+