Introduction

This plugin allows you to work with dynamic inventory on Azure.

Features

• Support VMSS
• Conditional groups based on the name of the instances.
• Key group tags creation
• Multiples authentication methods way

Installation

Install azure cli

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest

Install azure inventory plugin

$ pip install 'ansible[azure]'

Setup

Create a new file called azure_rm.yml

---
plugin: azure_rm
auth_source: auto
 
# Include VMSS.
include_vmss_resource_groups:
  - '*'

Setup Azure subscription settings

Azure cli

$ az login
$ az account set --subscription <subscription_name>

Invoking ansible cli.

Listing all hosts

$ ansible-inventory -i azure_rm.yml --list all

Pinging

$ ansible all -m ping -i azure_rm.yml -u <ansible_user> --key-file "<ansible_user_ssh_key_file>"

If you did not get any error, it’s working properly.

Next post, I will give some ideas how to improve the inventory.