ansible/plugins/inventory/libvirt_lxc.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# (c) 2013, Michael Scherer <misc@zarb.org>
#
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from subprocess import Popen,PIPE
import sys
import json

result = {}
result['all'] = {}

pipe = Popen(['virsh', '-q', '-c', 'lxc:///', 'list', '--name', '--all'], stdout=PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
result['all']['hosts'] = [x[:-1] for x in pipe.stdout.readlines()]
result['all']['vars'] = {}
result['all']['vars']['ansible_connection'] = 'lxc'

if len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1] == '--list':
    print json.dumps(result)
elif len(sys.argv) == 3 and sys.argv[1] == '--host':
    print json.dumps({'ansible_connection': 'lxc'})
else:
    print "Need an argument, either --list or --host <host>"