{"id":1026,"date":"2024-02-23T06:10:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T06:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2024-02-23T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T08:43:18","slug":"ansible-inventory-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Ansible &#8211; Inventory file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple Ansible\u00a0 inventory file is a txt file that has a list of managed hosts and groups.<\/p>\n<p>A simple Inventory can be as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/strong> cat inventory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>== =====<\/p>\n<p>192.168.132.129<br \/>\nservera.example.com<\/p>\n<p>[webservers]<br \/>\nservera.example.com<br \/>\nserverb.example.com<\/p>\n<p>[dbservers]<br \/>\nserverc.example.com<br \/>\nserverb.example.com<br \/>\nservera.example.com<\/p>\n<p>[myGroups:children]<br \/>\nwebservers<br \/>\ndbservers<\/p>\n<p>==== ====<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/strong> ansible-navigator inventory -i inventory -m stdout &#8211;list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>===== ===<br \/>\n{<br \/>\n&#8220;_meta&#8221;: {<br \/>\n&#8220;hostvars&#8221;: {}<br \/>\n},<br \/>\n&#8220;all&#8221;: {<br \/>\n&#8220;children&#8221;: [<br \/>\n&#8220;ungrouped&#8221;,<br \/>\n&#8220;myGroups&#8221;<br \/>\n]<br \/>\n},<br \/>\n&#8220;dbservers&#8221;: {<br \/>\n&#8220;hosts&#8221;: [<br \/>\n&#8220;serverc.example.com&#8221;,<br \/>\n&#8220;serverb.example.com&#8221;,<br \/>\n&#8220;servera.example.com&#8221;<br \/>\n]<br \/>\n},<br \/>\n&#8220;myGroups&#8221;: {<br \/>\n&#8220;children&#8221;: [<br \/>\n&#8220;webservers&#8221;,<br \/>\n&#8220;dbservers&#8221;<br \/>\n]<br \/>\n},<br \/>\n&#8220;ungrouped&#8221;: {<br \/>\n&#8220;hosts&#8221;: [<br \/>\n&#8220;192.168.132.129&#8221;<br \/>\n]<br \/>\n},<br \/>\n&#8220;webservers&#8221;: {<br \/>\n&#8220;hosts&#8221;: [<br \/>\n&#8220;servera.example.com&#8221;,<br \/>\n&#8220;serverb.example.com&#8221;<br \/>\n]<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n=== ====<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/strong> ansible-navigator inventory -i inventory -m stdout &#8211;graph<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>==== ===<br \/>\n@all:<br \/>\n|&#8211;@ungrouped:<br \/>\n| |&#8211;192.168.132.129<br \/>\n|&#8211;@myGroups:<br \/>\n| |&#8211;@webservers:<br \/>\n| | |&#8211;servera.example.com<br \/>\n| | |&#8211;serverb.example.com<br \/>\n| |&#8211;@dbservers:<br \/>\n| | |&#8211;serverc.example.com<br \/>\n| | |&#8211;serverb.example.com<br \/>\n| | |&#8211;servera.example.com<\/p>\n<p>=======<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A simple Ansible\u00a0 inventory file is a txt file that has a list of managed hosts and groups. A simple Inventory can be as follows: <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=1026\" title=\"Ansible &#8211; Inventory file\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ansible","category-devops","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}