czjess / Ansible_Azure_Inventory

Develop new Ansible module for particular functions for playbook. Which can output Azure Inventory. Module should be in Python.

Ansible Playbooks for Azure Inventory

This repository contains examples and best practices for building Ansible Playbooks for Azure Inventory.

Prerequisites

• Azure Account. If you don't have one, get a free one.

  To authenticate with Azure, generate service principal and expose them as environment variables or store them as a file.

• Install Ansible

• Install Azure dependencies package

  pip install ansible[azure]

• Install azure_preview_modules role.

• Install azure_preview_module role's dependencies packages.

  pip install -r ~/.ansible/roles/Azure.azure_preview_modules/files/requirements-azure.txt

How to run

To run samples in your local environment,

• git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/ansible-playbooks.git
• cd ansible-playbooks
• modify playbook to replace variables with yours, such as resource group name.
• add Azure credential info by using one of the following options.

First option, set the following environment variables:

AZURE_CLIENT_ID=<service_principal_client_id>
AZURE_SECRET=<service_principal_password>
AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=<azure_subscription_id>
AZURE_TENANT=<azure_tenant_id>

Second option, add the following content to the file $HOME/.azure/credentials:

[default]
subscription_id=xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
client_id=xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
secret=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
tenant=xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

Third option, do a az login:

az login

• ansible-playbook sample.yml

Resources

Ansible on Azure

Get Started with Azure

Ansible Playbook

Ansible role azure_preview_modules

Ansible Galaxy for example roles from the Ansible community for deploying many popular applications.