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Curl command to get inventory-id from ansible tower

I need to retrieve the inventory_id for a given project (project_dev is the project name) from ansible tower using curl command

curl -X GET -s -k -u "user:password" -vvv  -H 'Content-Type:application/json' -d '{"organization": 1,"name": "project-dev"}' https://ansibletower.com/api/v2/inventories/"
Solution

  • Q: I need to retrieve the inventory_id from ansible tower.

    A: Use tower-cli

    Usage: tower-cli inventory get [OPTIONS] [ID]

    Q: How to add special character password to tower-cli config?

    A: Use tower_cli.cfg

    $ cat $HOME/.tower_cli.cfg 
[general]
host = http://srv.example.com
username = admin
password = password
verify_ssl = no