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When “Pre-Installed OpenWrt” Isn’t Plug-and-Play

  Lessons Learned After Finally Configuring a Raspberry Pi CM4 Mini Router (Bought in 2022) Product Mini Router built with Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Dual Gigabit Ethernet NICs 4GB RAM / 32GB eMMC Pre-installed OpenWrt Compact form factor, fanless, low power Background: A Device That Waited Its Turn I bought this device back in 2022 . At the time, it looked like the perfect small router: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Dual Ethernet ports OpenWrt already installed No SD card required thanks to eMMC But like many homelab projects, it ended up sitting on a shelf . Fast forward to today — with more networking experience, a clearer home network plan, and a real need for a flexible router — I finally decided to configure it properly. That’s when the real journey started. What I Expected (Even in 2025) Even knowing this wasn’t a consumer router, I still expected: Plug WAN into my upstream router Plug LAN into my laptop Access 192.168.1.1 Hav...

Ansible using plugins for dynamic inventories


This is a small post about how to use inventory plugins in Ansible. If you are looking the script way I recommend to read this article: http://gloriasilveira.com/setting-up-ansible-for-aws-with-dynamic-inventory-ec2.html
It explains really good this or you can watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnbqO1kTPqE&t=6s
But if you’re looking to use inventory this article can help you.
First of all, why should I used inventory if all over the internet they’re using the python scripts?
Well, Ansible recommends it:
Inventory plugins take advantage of the most recent updates to Ansible’s core code. We recommend plugins over scripts for dynamic inventory. You can write your own plugin to connect to additional dynamic inventory sources. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_dynamic_inventory.html
The actual ansible guide is quite good, but there was a step that got me confused, probably my english isn’t so good and I didn’t understood it.
We need to enable the plugin. So we have 2 ways of doing this, we could edit the ansible.cfg file located in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg or in your local folder where you’re working.
Ansible Documentation
According to ansible, you need to enable the plugin, like the following code, but I was killing myself and couldn’t make it work, so what’s the correct way of doing it?
[inventory]
enable_plugins = host_list, script, auto, yaml, ini, toml
The way it works for me
I’m working with aws dynamic inventory. So according to the documentation the file name has to end in aws_ec2.(yml|yaml)
So I need to add the aws_ec2 to the enable plugins.
[inventory]
enable_plugins = aws_ec2, host_list, yaml, ini, script
After that, following the documentation is quite easy
File name: demo.aws_ec2.yml
# Minimal example using environment vars or instance role credentials
# Fetch all hosts in us-east-1, the hostname is the public DNS if it exists, otherwise the private IP address
plugin: aws_ec2
regions:
  - us-east-1
If you need to run it
ansible-inventory -i demo.aws_ec2.yml --graph
If you need to use it on a playbook, sending of parameter a private key
ansible-playbook -i demo.aws_ec2.yml playbook.yaml --private-key KEY

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