Inventory is the Ansible way to track all the systems in your infrastructure. Here is a simple static inventory file containing a single system and the login credentials for Ansible.
[targethost]
192.168.1.1 ansible_user=mrtuovinen ansible_ssh_pass=PassW0rd
Write these lines for example to hosts
file and pass the file to ansible
or ansible-playbook
command with -i
/--inventory-file
flag.
See static inventory and dynamic inventory for more details.