From 959520115cb5e806de2f4c929f04c87d683f4e7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:43:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added _meta hostvars key to gce.py plugin per the discussion
 in issue #9291.

---
 plugins/inventory/gce.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/inventory/gce.py b/plugins/inventory/gce.py
index c8eeb43ab1..9bb8d84065 100755
--- a/plugins/inventory/gce.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/gce.py
@@ -229,9 +229,14 @@ class GceInventory(object):
     def group_instances(self):
         '''Group all instances'''
         groups = {}
+        meta = {}
+        meta["hostvars"] = {}
+
         for node in self.driver.list_nodes():
             name = node.name
 
+            meta["hostvars"][name] = self.node_to_dict(node)
+
             zone = node.extra['zone'].name
             if groups.has_key(zone): groups[zone].append(name)
             else: groups[zone] = [name]
@@ -259,6 +264,9 @@ class GceInventory(object):
             stat = 'status_%s' % status.lower()
             if groups.has_key(stat): groups[stat].append(name)
             else: groups[stat] = [name]
+
+        groups["_meta"] = meta
+
         return groups
 
     def json_format_dict(self, data, pretty=False):