Includes:
- New apply_vars_overrides() with deep merge logic
- New --vars CLI argument in cli/create/inventory.py
- Added unit tests for vars handling in test_inventory.py
- Updated test-deploy workflow to pass --vars in all deploy phases
Ref: ChatGPT conversation https://chatgpt.com/share/69320f49-6c00-800f-8875-49d36935ae3a
- Updated CLI argument parsing to use --exclude instead of --ignore.
- Adjusted help texts, comments, and error messages accordingly.
- Updated role filtering logic and references (include → exclude).
- Added new unit tests for parse_roles_list(), filter_inventory_by_include(), and filter_inventory_by_ignore().
- Improved wording and consistency in docstrings.
This change is part of the refactoring required for the Ansible 2.18 → 2.20 upgrade, ensuring naming clarity and avoiding confusion with Python's 'ignore' semantics.
Conversation reference: https://chatgpt.com/share/69307ef2-1fb4-800f-a2ec-d56020019269
- Implement ensure_become_password() to handle explicit, generated, and existing become passwords
- Integrate VaultHandler for encrypted ansible_become_password storage
- Add CLI parameter --become-password to inventory creation workflow
- Ensure backwards compatibility: existing passwords remain untouched unless explicitly overridden
- Add unit test verifying non-overwrite behaviour when no password is provided
- Part of migration and refactoring for Ansible 2.20 upgrade
Reference: https://chatgpt.com/share/69301a6d-e920-800f-b19c-e5ca7c3bdd24
### Overview
This commit introduces a broad set of improvements across the defaults
generator, credential creation subsystem, inventory creation workflow,
and InventoryManager core logic.
### Major Changes
- Support empty or config/main.yml in defaults generator and ensure that
applications with empty configs are still included in defaults_applications.
- Add '--snippet' and '--allow-empty-plain' modes to create/credentials.py
with non-destructive merging and correct plain-secret handling.
- Ensure empty strings for 'plain' credentials are never encrypted.
- Update InventoryManager to fully support allow_empty_plain and prevent
accidental overwriting or encrypting existing VaultScalar or dict values.
- Add full-size implementation of cli/create/inventory.py including
dynamic inventory building, role filtering, host_vars management, and
parallelised credential snippet generation.
- Fix schemas (Magento, Nextcloud, OAuth2-Proxy, keyboard-color, etc.) to
align with the new credential model and avoid test failures.
- Improve get_app_conf consistency by ensuring credentials.* paths are
always resolvable for applications even when config/main.yml is empty.
### Added Test Coverage
- Unit tests for defaults generator handling empty configs.
- Full test suite for create/inventory.py including merge logic and
vault-safe host_vars loading.
- Extensive tests for InventoryManager: plain-secret behavior,
vault handling, and recursion logic.
- Update or remove outdated tests referencing old schema behaviour.
### Context
This commit is associated with a refactoring and debugging session documented here:
https://chatgpt.com/share/692ec0e1-5018-800f-b568-d09a53e9d0ee
- update cli/create/credentials.py to handle vault literals correctly:
* strip 'vault |' headers and keep only ANSIBLE_VAULT body
* skip reprocessing keys added in same run (no duplicate confirmation prompts)
* detect both 'vault' and 'ANSIBLE_VAULT' as already encrypted
Refs: https://chatgpt.com/share/68aed780-ad4c-800f-877d-aa4c40a47755
This commit restructures systemctl service definitions and category mappings.
Motivation: Alarm-related bugs revealed inconsistencies in service and role handling.
Preparation step: lays the groundwork for fixing the alarm issues by aligning categories, roles, and service templates.
