Using built-in Automation controller inventory plugins
There are several plugins built directly into the controller—these are mainly for connecting to cloud services. A list of supported services that can gather information about hosts, followed by their API and module aliases, is provided here:
- AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)—
ec2
- Google Compute Engine (GCE)—
gce
- Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM)—
azure_rm
- VMware vCenter—
vmware
- Red Hat Satellite 6—
satellite6
- Red Hat Insights—
insights
- OpenStack—
openstack
- Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)—
rhv
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform—
controller
- Project—
scm
will be covered in the following Using other popular inventory plugins section
Most of these inventory sources share a common form. Previously, the Using inventory sources section went into detail of how to add these as inventory sources to the Automation controller...