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Inventory is the Ansible way to track all the systems in your infrastructure. Here is a simple inventory file containing a single system and the login credentials for Ansible. [targethost] 192.168.1.1 ansible_user=mrtuovinen ansible_ssh_pass=PassW0rd

[targethost] 192.168.1.1 ansible_user=mrtuovinen ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/custom_key

[targethost] 192.168.1.1 ansible_user=mrtuovinen ansible_port=2222

ansible-playbook -i path/to/static-inventory-file -l myhost myplaybook.yml

ansible-playbook -i path/to/dynamic-inventory-script.py -l myhost myplaybook.yml See dynamic inventory for more details.

project structure (ansible best practice). project/ group_vars/ development inventory.development playbook.yaml it all starts with inventory.development [development] dev.fakename.io [development:vars] ansible_host: 192.168.0.1 ansible_user: dev ansible_pass: pass ansible...

The host file is used to store connections for Anisble playbooks. There are options to define connection parameters: ansible_host is the hostname or IP address ansible_port is the port the machine uses for SSH ansible_user is the remote user to connect as ansible_ssh_pass if using a password to ...