Generate ansible host file from redhat satellite

Hi,

Here is a little script to generate ansible host list from redhat satellite.
The idea is to use HostCollection to create ansible groups.

You need to have hammer installed on the server.
My satellite-api.conf contains this keys:

   [main]
   SATELLITE_URL = https://mysatellite.domain.dns
   SATELLITE_LOGIN = ****************
   SATELLITE_PASSWORD = *****************
   SATELLITE_ORG = myOrg

Here is the script

#!/bin/bash  fn_isHammer() {     if [ ! -f /usr/bin/hammer ]     then        echo "Error: hammer is not installed on this machine"        exit -1     fi } fn_isConfFile() {     if [ ! -s /usr/local/etc/satellite-api.conf ]     then        echo "Error: satellite-api.conf not found"        exit -1     fi } fn_getConfig() {     fn_isConfFile     login=$(grep SATELLITE_LOGIN /usr/local/etc/satellite-api.conf|awk  '{print $NF}')     password=$(grep SATELLITE_PASSWORD /usr/local/etc/satellite-api.conf|awk '{print $NF}')     url=$(grep SATELLITE_URL /usr/local/etc/satellite-api.conf|awk '{print $NF}')     ORG=$(grep SATELLITE_ORG /usr/local/etc/satellite-api.conf|awk -F= '{print $NF}') } fn_getHostsByCollections() {     for HC in $(hammer --no-headers -u $login -p$password \                      -s $url host-collection list | awk '{print $3}')     do        echo "[${HC}]"        hammer --no-headers -u $login -p$password -s $url \                      host-collection hosts --name "${HC}" \                      --organization $ORG | awk '{print $NF}'        echo ""     done } main() {     fn_isHammer     fn_getConfig     fn_getHostsByCollections } main

Now just run the script by redirecting the output in a file:

/usr/local/bin/getHostList.sh > /tmp/myInventoryFile

The script will produce inventory like this (depends on your host collections)

[rhel7] server1 server2 server3 [webservers] server2 server3 [dbhost] server1

Now you can use the inventory file with ansible:

ansible -i /tmp/myInventoryFile -l "webservers:&rhel7" -m ping