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<h1>API &amp; Integrations<a class="headerlink" href="#api-integrations" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>There are two major ways to use Ansible from an API perspective. The primary way
is to use the Ansible python API to control nodes. Ansible is written in it&#8217;s own
is to use the Ansible python API to control nodes. Ansible is written in its own
API so you have a considerable amount of power there.</p>
<p>Also covered here, Ansible&#8217;s
list of hosts, groups, and variables assigned to each host can be driven from
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in a different system. Frequent examples include LDAP, <a class="reference external" href="http://cobbler.github.com">Cobbler</a>,
or a piece of expensive enterprisey CMDB software. Ansible easily supports all
of these options via an external interventory system.</p>
<p>If you have a data store system where an Ansible external inventory script doesn&#8217;t already exist, this may require a little coding,J
but we have a <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/master/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py">Cobbler example</a> in the main source tree &#8211; but it&#8217;s pretty simple, as we&#8217;ll explain below &#8211; that would provide a good starting point. Like with modules, it&#8217;s possible to build an external inventory script in any language, as long as it returns JSON.</p>
<p>If you have a data store system where an Ansible external inventory script doesn&#8217;t already exist, this may require a little coding, but we have a <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/master/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py">Cobbler example</a> in the main source tree &#8211; but it&#8217;s pretty simple, as we&#8217;ll explain below &#8211; that would provide a good starting point. Like with modules, it&#8217;s possible to build an external inventory script in any language, as long as it returns JSON.</p>
<p>If you are familiar with Puppet terminology, this concept is basically the same as &#8216;external nodes&#8217;, with the slight difference that it also defines which hosts are managed.</p>
<div class="section" id="script-conventions">
<h3>Script Conventions<a class="headerlink" href="#script-conventions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>