bifrost/releasenotes/notes/support-custom-ansible-groups-38ad5d3a930b17eb.yaml
Julia Kreger 215f30ad5d Minor reno fixes
Change-Id: I3f6853bcfb41f0675a154190d1b761a227d3037b
2017-08-11 14:15:23 +00:00

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---
features:
- |
It is now possible to define additional per-host inventory
groups for all the hosts that make use of the dynamic JSON
inventory. The way to do that is to simply define a
list of groups in the `host_group` property as illustrated
in the following example:
.. code-block:: yaml
"node1": {
"uuid": "a8cb6624-0d9f-c882-affc-046ebb96ec01",
"host_groups": [
"baremetal"
],
}
When provisioning virtual machines it's possible to set
the per-VM inventory groups by setting the ``test_vm_host_groups``
variable as follows::
{ test_vm_host_groups: { testhost: [nova, cinder] } }
It is also possible to change the default ``baremetal`` group
for virtual machines by simply setting the ``host_default_group``
variable to a list of default groups as follows::
{ test_vm_default_groups: [baremetal vms] }
The list of default groups can also be set in the
``DEFAULT_HOST_GROUPS`` environmental variable. This is currently
the only way to change the default group for baremetal hosts::
export DEFAULT_HOST_GROUPS="foo bar zoo"
This will change the default groups to [foo, bar, zoo] instead of
the currently [baremetal] default. Extra care should be taken when
using this method since most bifrost playbooks depend on having a
[baremetal] group available for provisioning hosts.