From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 3 Managing Systems with Ansible
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Using dynamic inventory plugins
From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 3 Managing Systems with Ansible
Using dynamic inventory plugins
- In the EX294 foundations of Ansible course, we created a static inventory of file. That's entails listing the hosts that we want to manage as well as putting them into groups. I demonstrated both the INI and the ammo formats. Static Inventory files are easy to configure, they don't change, work for smaller environments and are large non-changing environments. However, if your environment changes such as if you have hosts that start up and shut down often you'll need to look into ways of managing inventory dynamically. A static Inventory file will not be sufficient in this case. Dynamic inventory is more complex to configure and stores inventory externally in configurable sources. It's good for large infrastructures, or when the infrastructure changes, which is common in cloud computing. You can manage dynamic inventory two ways, with inventory plugins or with inventory scripts. We'll start by talking about inventory…
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