Ansible integrates all of these options through a dynamic external inventory system. Ansible supports two ways to connect with external inventory: Inventory Plugins and inventory scripts . ... You can write your own plugin to connect to additional dynamic inventory sources.
Can Ansible do provisioning?
Ansible can be used to provision the underlying infrastructure, install services, add compute hosts, and more. Once the underlying environment is provisioned, Ansible can also be used provision resources, services, and applications inside of your cloud.
How do I run a dynamic inventory in Ansible?
Let's start working our own custom dynamic inventory script by outlining the basic JSON format Ansible expects:
- { ...
- VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2" ...
- [group] ...
- #!/usr/bin/env python. ...
- $ ./inventory.py --list. ...
- $ ansible all -i inventory.py -m ping. ...
- $ ansible all -i inventory.py -m debug -a "var=host_specific_var" ...
- #!/usr/bin/php.
