Filtering by tag for Dynamic Inventory Ansible with "azure_rm plugin"

[gavinfish]

SUMMARY

In the legacy Azure inventory script, it supports selecting hosts with specific tag key with environment variables like below.

ansible/contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py

Lines 139 to 141 in 558ce65

	Select hosts for specific tag key by assigning a comma separated list of tag keys to:
	AZURE_TAGS=key1,key2,key3

But in the new Azure inventory plugin, it no longer supports any more. And this may make users confused when they try to migrate from the script to plugin.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

azure inventory plugin

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Enable selecting hosts with tags set in environment variables.

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• lib/ansible/plugins/inventory

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[rpurcelldesj]

I'm currently facing this issue, I was using a variable in our pipeline to target specific vm using tags and was exporting the tags to AZURE_TAGS env var in the ansible host, but the new azure_rm inventory module provided in ansible 2.8 seems to ignore the old AZURE_TAGS variable.

Do you plan to port the modification into the stable-2.8 branch ? I see you are a new contributor, I'm not that experienced, but let me know if you need help. I've been thru the PR process once in the past! Thanks for your contribution!!

[gavinfish]

@rpurcelldesj I need someone review the PR and help me merge it into the right place.

[rpurcelldesj]

Ok, I've looked at the commit history and I tried to tag one of the "original" contributor to the new code, let's try that and we'll see where we go from there!

[sivel]

!component =contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py

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• contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py

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[ansibot]

Thank you very much for your interest in Ansible. Ansible has migrated much of the content into separate repositories to allow for more rapid, independent development. We are closing this issue/PR because this content has been moved to one or more collection repositories.

• contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py -> https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general

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https://github.com/ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/docs/collection_migration.md