iapp — Infrastructure as PowerPoint

⚠️ This is a joke. Please do not put this in production. Ever.

It is a wonky weekend idea about turning PowerPoint decks into Ansible inventories by interpreting shapes as hosts/groups and arrows as membership edges. It "works" in the narrow sense that bytes go in and YAML comes out — that is not the same thing as being a good idea.

Why you should not use this

• PowerPoint is not a source of truth. It is a presentation tool.
• Arrows in a deck mean whatever the author felt like that morning.
• A slide with a typo will happily generate an inventory with a typo.
• "Did marketing just reshape our prod topology?" is not a question your on-call rotation should have to answer.
• Version control on .pptx is a binary-diff nightmare.
• There is no schema, no validation, no dry-run worth the name.
• Real IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi, …) exist and are good. Use those.

What it actually does

1. Reads a .pptx with python-pptx.
2. Treats each text-bearing shape as a node (first line = name, extra key: value lines = vars).
3. Treats each connector as an edge; nodes with outgoing edges become groups, leaves become hosts.
4. Emits an Ansible inventory YAML, and optionally a playbook scaffold ordered leaves-first.

Usage

pip install python-pptx pyyaml
python make_example.py                # builds example.pptx
python iapp.py example.pptx -o inventory.yml --playbook site.yml

License / expectations

Do whatever you want with it. If it breaks your datacenter that is between you and the slide deck you chose to trust.