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Workspace Concert Workflows
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 22, 2026

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Add additional configuration possibilities to the Ansible Inventory authentications

At this time the Ansible Inventory authentications only provide Private Key and Inventory fields. 

This idea is add some more fields at an authentication level:
- Username / Password, to allow the user to dynamically override only the hostname defined in the inventory while reusing the same authentication credentials. Currently, whenever we need to override a hostname, we must create a dynamic inventory entry that includes both the hostname and the associated username/password credentials. By providing separate username and password options in the Authentication Key, users could simply override the hostname dynamically without needing to recreate or duplicate credential information in the inventory.
- Connection type: Such as SSH / WinRM as well as NTLM support in the case of Windows. 
- Port 
- Certificate Validation

These fields would be seperate from the existing functionality, which would remain as is. 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Aug 12, 2026

    Hi @liamhfox@ie.ibm.com

    Given the extensive capabilities of Ansible Inventory and the various ways credentials can be configured, I do not believe the scope of the request is clear.

    For example, in this case:

    [group1]
host1 ansible_user=user1 ansible_password=password1
host2 ansible_user=user2 ansible_password=password2

[group2]
host3 ansible_user=user3 ansible_password=password3
host4 ansible_user=user4 ansible_password=password4

     

    it is unclear how the username, password, and port fields would be populated.

    Please provide additional information.

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