From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 1 Foundations of Ansible
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Show Ansible inventory
From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 1 Foundations of Ansible
Show Ansible inventory
- [Instructor] If we have a simple setup it's very easy to count the /etc/ansible/host file to get a list of our inventory. However, as your system grows, this will no longer be a good option. Imagine hundreds of overlapping groups and thousands of managed hosts. The Ansible inventory command can help. Let's start by displaying a list of our inventory. To do so we'll use the Ansible-inventory command with a --list option. In a terminal type in ansible-inventory space --list and hit enter. Here we can see a JSON file listing all hosts, both of our Ansible groups named dbservers and webservers and the ungrouped group. If you want information on one specific host you can use the --host argument. However, as you can see from our rhost2.localnet.com managed host, there's not much to show. If you want to send the output to a file you can add the --output option for instance. Bring your line back and append --output space…
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