[PR #7998/4947786d backport][stable-8] Adds group_by_hostgroups parameter to Icinga2 inventory

[patchback]

This is a backport of PR #7998 as merged into main (4947786).

SUMMARY

This PR adds an optional parameter to Icinga2 inventory group_by_hostgroups (boolean). If true, Icinga2 hostgroups are used as Ansible groups; if false the step is ignored. For backward compatibility, the default is true.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Pull Request

COMPONENT NAME

icinga2.py inventory

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

In my use case, I want to use Icinga2 as inventory source but my hostgroups' naming convention isn't suitable to become an ansible group strategy (spaces, capital letters and invalid characters) so I prefer to disable the builtin grouping by hostgroups and use the capabilities of constructed inventory (groups and keyed_groups).

# my.icinga2.yml
plugin: community.general.icinga2
url: http://localhost:5665
user: ansible
password: secure
host_filter: \"linux-servers\" in host.groups
validate_certs: false  # only do this when connecting to localhost!
group_by_hostgroups: false