Ansible IPAM (dynamic inventory)

Overview

Ansible uses a dynamic inventory constructed from API calls to a phpipam instance located at https://ipam.intra.digeiz.fr It stores information such as hostnames, IP addresses, groups, NAT addresses where applicable and other useful things.

When to use

• •Looking up hosts in a specific group
• •Looking up groups of a specific host
• •Looking up IP addresses, subnets or other network related information about a host
• •Exploring the ansible inventory in general

How to use

• •The command nix run . -- ipam -l outputs the whole inventory in json format.
• •nix run . -- ipam --group <group name> -a outputs a list of host in the group defined by <group name>.
• •nix run . -- ipam --group <group name> outputs a list of groups nested under <group name>. For instance, the group all would output all groups in the inventory. Nested groups are idented.
• •nix run . -- ipam --host <hostname> outputs a json with the host related variable values.
• •nix run . -- ipam --host <hostname> --belong outputs a list of groups the host belongs to.