Awx: RFE enable vmware inventory plugin for ansible 2.9+

[kdelee]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

• API

SUMMARY

Usage of vmware inventory plugin was not enabled with https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/3266

We should work on getting this enabled in the future.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We need to do more research about what differences there may be between script and plugin and get any fixes into ansible core before we can do this.

[AlanCoding]

Link https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/46727

It's going to be hard to update the script for issues when core is no longer maintaining it.

[AlanCoding]

Firstly, this is blocked by the need to convert to collections, because ansible/ansible is no longer accepting patches, particularly not for 2.10, and even if we did a 2.9 backport, it needs to go in the collection first.

https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/6283

Secondly, this is blocked by actually getting this patch in:

https://github.com/ansible-collections/vmware/pull/58

More patches may be needed, but this passes our first-level of smoke tests.

[AlanCoding]

Assuming those blockers are addressed, here is the branch for enablement:

https://github.com/ansible/awx/compare/devel...AlanCoding:vmware_plugin?expand=1

Other stuff needs to merge first before we can seriously consider this.

[AlanCoding]

Component issue: https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/6727

Ongoing work in: https://github.com/ansible-collections/vmware/pull/80

In-progress work for this issue is lumped into: https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/6283

[kdelee]

We are now using the plugin and our regression tests are running and passing -- calling this verified. Any follow up issues for options or small bugs will be tracked in new issues.

[Koma-Andrea]

The plugin works but I cannot get the tags to work. Also would be useful to group bt folder but the documentation is missing a lot of examples..

[s-jaiganesh]

I cannot get the vmware tags in AWX.