Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible's fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page (and other things) containing system configuration information.
It supports multiple types of output (html, csv, sql, etc) and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data. For each host it also shows the groups, host variables, custom variables and machine-local facts.
Ansible-cmdb can be installed using pip, the Python package manager. There are also stand-alone packages for various Linux distributions. Alternatively, you can use brew or plain old make install
For installation via Pip:
Install pip if you don't have it yet.
Install Ansible-cmdb with Pip:
sudo pip install ansible-cmdbYou can also upgrade Ansible-cmdb through Pip:
sudo pip install --upgrade ansible-cmdbYou can check the full documentation to get more details, I will just describe the essential here, that can be usefull to you don't waste time going on the documentation.
Before generate the report we should execute the ansible-cmd to collect the facts from our inventory and save the facts inside some folder:
$ mkdir output-fact
$ ansible -i /etc/ansible/inventory/hmg/web_servers all -m setup --tree output-fact/- Create the output-fac
- Run ansible with setup module to get the facts and save it in the created folder
$ ansible-cmdb -t html_fancy output-fact/ > web_servers-html.html$ ansible-cmdb -t csv output-fact/ > web_servers-csv.csv
