Inventory example usage fails

[patricks]

Hi,

I tried to run your example:

ansible -i hcloud_inventory all -m ping

But I get the following output:

[WARNING]: Unable to parse /Users/foobar/hcloud_inventory as an inventory
source

[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available

[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note
that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

I have copied the hcloud_inventory binary into ~/.ansible/plugins/modules/ on my macOS machine.

Any ideas what's wrong?

[thetechnick]

Hi @patricks, the inventory is not installed as a module but referenced directly with -i path/to/the/hcloud_inventory. Make sure to have the HCLOUD_TOKEN environment variable set to the project token you want to use.

I will add documentation how to use the inventory with the next update.

[exquisitus]

Hello @thetechnick,

Thank you for your work on hcloud-ansible. I would like to ask this

export HCLOUD_TOKEN=7zt.....
ansible -i ~/.ansible/plugins/modules/hcloud_inventory all -m ping

Ansible finds that there is only one server in the all group (my-server) but cannot connect

my-server | UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Warning: Permanently added '159.69.22.126' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.\r\nPermission denied (publickey,password).\r\n",
    "unreachable": true
}

If I add an entry with the IP and IdentityFile for my-server to my .ssh/config, then the same succeeds

my-server | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

Is this manual step necessary? I ask because hcloud server ssh my-server connects to my-server without it (it only needs my API token).

(it might be that I am missing something very basic, sorry if that is the case)