netbox-community
[Bug]: Netbox inventory fails when ~/.netrc exists (without a valid user for netbox)
Ansible NetBox Collection version
3.13.0
Ansible version
ansible [core 2.14.18]
config file = None
configured module search path = ['/home/flo/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /home/flo/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
python version = 3.11.2 (main, Nov 30 2024, 21:22:50) [GCC 12.2.0] (/usr/bin/python3)
jinja version = 3.1.2
libyaml = True
NetBox version
v4.1.4
Python version
3.11
Steps to Reproduce
Create a .netrc with valid syntax without users for the netbox
Example:
machine cloud.foo.de login prealxsync password myl1ttlepony
Expected Behavior
ansible-inventory -i inventory.yml --list
should list valid hosts from netbox
Observed Behavior
ansible-inventory does not even try to connect to netbox, verified with tcpdump.
This is the python backtrace. When moving the "~/.netrc" away everything works as expected.
flo@p5:~/projects/hahn/certificates$ ansible-inventory -i inventory.yml --list -vvvv
ansible-inventory [core 2.14.18]
config file = None
configured module search path = ['/home/flo/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /home/flo/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-inventory
python version = 3.11.2 (main, Nov 30 2024, 21:22:50) [GCC 12.2.0] (/usr/bin/python3)
jinja version = 3.1.2
libyaml = True
No config file found; using defaults
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/flo/projects/hahn/certificates/inventory.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/flo/projects/hahn/certificates/inventory.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Loading collection netbox.netbox from /home/flo/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/netbox/netbox
Using inventory plugin 'ansible_collections.netbox.netbox.plugins.inventory.nb_inventory' to process inventory source '/home/flo/projects/hahn/certificates/inventory.yml'
Fetching: https://cmdb.hahn.group/api/status
toml declined parsing /home/flo/projects/hahn/certificates/inventory.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
[WARNING]: * Failed to parse /home/flo/projects/hahn/certificates/inventory.yml with auto plugin: expected string or bytes-like object, got 'int'
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 293, in parse_source
plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/auto.py", line 59, in parse
plugin.parse(inventory, loader, path, cache=cache)
File "/home/flo/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/netbox/netbox/plugins/inventory/nb_inventory.py", line 2039, in parse
self.main()
File "/home/flo/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/netbox/netbox/plugins/inventory/nb_inventory.py", line 1895, in main
self.fetch_api_docs()
File "/home/flo/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/netbox/netbox/plugins/inventory/nb_inventory.py", line 1501, in fetch_api_docs
if version.parse(netbox_api_version) >= version.parse("3.5.0"):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/packaging/version.py", line 52, in parse
return Version(version)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/packaging/version.py", line 195, in __init__
match = self._regex.search(version)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[WARNING]: * Failed to parse /home/flo/projects/hahn/certificates/inventory.yml with yaml plugin: Plugin configuration YAML file, not YAML inventory
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 293, in parse_source
plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py", line 114, in parse
raise AnsibleParserError('Plugin configuration YAML file, not YAML inventory')
[WARNING]: * Failed to parse /home/flo/projects/hahn/certificates/inventory.yml with ini plugin: Invalid host pattern '---' supplied, '---' is normally a sign this is a YAML file.
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 293, in parse_source
plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py", line 137, in parse
raise AnsibleParserError(e)
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /home/flo/projects/hahn/certificates/inventory.yml as an inventory source
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
{
"_meta": {
"hostvars": {}
},
"all": {
"children": [
"ungrouped"
]
}
}
May be related - but that issue says the problem exists when the netbox host is actually in the .netrc.
In my case the .netrc only lists a single, completely unrelated host, even in a different top level domain, different customer.
Flo
We do not have anything in our code that deals with a .netrc file so unfortunately this is a problem that is below the layer that we really can control. We are using open_url from Ansible. This is not something we can fix.
https://github.com/netbox-community/ansible_modules/blob/devel/plugins/inventory/nb_inventory.py#L406 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py#L708 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py#L986
I am guessing that something in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py#L640 is not correct, you should file a bug with Ansible itself and report this, to try and track down where and why this is going wrong.