Allow to pass a static inventory to the validator CLI

This is especially interesting when doing a full upgrade, as you might
end in a situation where you don't have any running services on the
undercloud.

This patch will be needed down to stable/train.

Change-Id: Ife48ed6ec5e5ae7c9ff1695c83e1d3312dc1205a
(cherry picked from commit 4c713b189c)

tripleoclient/v1/tripleo_validator.py

@@ -274,6 +274,17 @@ class TripleOValidatorRun(command.Command):
                 "ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=default")
         )
 
+        extra_vars_group.add_argument(
+            '--static-inventory',
+            action='store',
+            default='',
+            help=_(
+                "Provide your own static inventory file. You can generate "
+                "such an inventory calling tripleo-ansible-inventory command. "
+                "Especially useful when heat service isn't available."
+            )
+        )
+
         ex_group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
 
         ex_group.add_argument(
@@ -314,6 +325,12 @@ class TripleOValidatorRun(command.Command):
                 else:
                     extra_vars.update(yaml.load(env_file))
 
+        # We don't check if the file exists in order to support
+        # passing a string such as "localhost,", like we can do with
+        # the "-i" option of ansible-playbook.
+        if parsed_args.static_inventory:
+            static_inventory = parsed_args.static_inventory
+        else:
             static_inventory = oooutils.get_tripleo_ansible_inventory(
                 ssh_user='heat-admin',
                 stack=parsed_args.plan,
@@ -354,6 +371,7 @@ class TripleOValidatorRun(command.Command):
             t.add_row(r.values())
         print(t)
 
+        if not parsed_args.static_inventory:
             LOG.debug(_('Removing static tripleo ansible inventory file'))
             oooutils.cleanup_tripleo_ansible_inventory_file(
                 static_inventory)