Ansible Dynamic Inventory script for Tilaa.com Virtual Machines

This script will talk to the Tilaa.com API to query the configured virtual machines. It needs access to the Tilaa API credentials in the form of the environment-variables

TILAA_USERNAME

TILAA_PASSWORD

At this time it's not 100% conformant to what AWX/Tower expects a dynamic inventory to do, but it works good enough to provide the hosts to AWX/Tower and ansible-playbook.

Make the tilaa.py script executable and place it in your inventory directory, or use it directly as your inventory

From the Tilaa api documentation at https://www.tilaa.com/en/api/docs:

All endpoints require Basic Authentication. For security reasons you cannot use your main Tilaa user account to access this API. Instead, you should add an API user to your customer account and use the specified login credentials to authenticate.

Tilaa doesn't allow any dots or underscores in their 'friendly' hostnames that are presented in the webinterface and API. Since we prefer to use the fqdn-hostname here, we like to use dots in our hostnames.

The tilaa-with-replace.py version, also included in the repository will find/replace double dashes (--) with a dot in the hostname, so if you creatively name your hosts, this find/replace will return fqdn-hostnames.

demo.sig-io.nl would become demo--sig-io--nl in the tilaa api/control-panel, but back to demo.sig-io.nl for Ansible/AWX/Tower.

I have requested tilaa to allow dots or underscores, but have not received a reply yet.

The other inventory-script 'tilaa.py' doesn't do this replacement, so it's your choice if you wanna use it.