Puppet to Ansible

This Ruby script can be used to create new Ansible inventories from YAML files in Puppet repository filesystems.

Reads YAML files from the data/nodes and data/roles directories for each environment, and builds inv representing your updated Ansible inventory.

The create_inventory.rb ruby script parses puppet environment filesystems and converts each role and host file to a single Ansible compatible inventory file.

Requirements

Ruby script

• Ruby is included in most modern Linux distributions.

sudo apt install ruby

• If you're using Windows, you can install Ruby from rubyinstaller.org.

• All Puppet agents include Ruby The Ruby runtime environment on Puppet includes the Ruby language, some Ruby libraries and a set of Puppet specific gems.

Usage

Put this script in the root of your puppet environments folder, then change to the directory and run:

ruby create_inventory.rb > inventory.yaml

A new inventory.yaml file will be created.

What now?

You can use this inventory file to run Ansible playbooks on your environments, roles and nodes.