June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 10m
English
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The inventory file
We do not need Ansible if we have no remote target to manage, correct? Everything starts from the fact that we need to manage some task on a remote host. The way we specify the potential remote target is with a host file. We can either have this file specifying the remote host either in /etc/ansible/hosts or use the -i option to specify the location of the file. Personally, I prefer to have this file in the same directory where my playbook is.
Technically, this file can be named anything as long as it is in a valid format. However, you can potentially save yourself and your colleagues some headaches in the future by following this convention.
The inventory file is a simple, plain text INI-style file that states your target. ...