Currently Cloudforms can return a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in the
ipaddresses field and this mix comes in a "random" order (that is the
first entry may be IPv4 sometimes but IPv6 other times). If you wish to
always use IPv4 for the ansible_ssh_host value then this is problematic.
This change adds a new prefer_ipv4 flag which will look for the first
IPv4 address in the ipaddresses list and uses that instead of just the
first entry.
Allows for use of a suffix that will be appended to host names returned
from Cloudforms API if that suffix is not present.
For example with a suffix of 'example.org', the following results would
be shown for a particular Cloudforms host name:
someexample -> someexample.example.org
someexample.example.org -> someexample.example.org
The main use-case for this is, when one Inventory Source is returning
names that have a FQDN name whilst others are returning a shortname, to
ensure that the hosts in an inventory aren't effectively duplicated.
On Cloudforms (Version 2.0 at least), the dictionary that gets passed to
the inventory_import has a top-level 'cloudforms' dictionary element
that contains the 'id' and 'power_state' rather than those elements
being at the top-level of the dictionary.
This change adds in the 'cloudforms' into the expected name.
Richard Bywater