Ansible AWX Custom Script for Local Inventory Not working

Question

I have an Ansible AWX server setup within a container and have setup all bar Inventory of 3 local LAN virtual machines.

I am looking to add some already deployed virtual machines on my LAN for a test case, currently 3 hosts.

I was looking at custom dynamic inventory script like contained in link below, but does not seem to run correctly for me. I see an error in python syntax. I tried to upload anyway but get and error "needs to be a json dict" when run sync within inventories. This is also the line I have syntax error on line 32:

print json.dumps(self.inventory);

Dynamic Inventory Script

I am looking only to add the 3 host virtual machines or subnet to inventory to test some playbooks.

Answer 1

This is also the line I have syntax error on line 32:

print json.dumps(self.inventory);

That means it is very likely that your python is actually python 3, in which print became a function, not a keyword. Thus, you will want to do one, or perhaps both, of these things:

1. change print json... to print(json.dumps(self.inventory))

2. add a declaration to the top of the file to ensure the script will continue to behave rationally even when run on python 2:

   #!/usr/bin/env python
   from __future__ import print_function
   
   '''
   Example custom dynamic inventory script for Ansible, in Python.