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Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook
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Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

by Aditya Patawari, Vikas Aggarwal
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
5h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using dynamic inventory

We have talked about dynamic inventory a little bit in this chapter. Throughout this book, in every chapter, we are going to talk about and use dynamic inventory. So let us explore the concept in a bit more depth.

Reiterating what we wrote earlier, dynamic inventory is useful for infrastructures that are dynamic in nature or for cases where we do not want to or cannot maintain a static inventory. Dynamic inventory queries a datasource and builds the inventory in real time. For the sake of this book, we will query cloud providers to get data and build the inventory. Ansible provides dynamic inventory scripts for most of the popular cloud providers.

However, it is simple to create a dynamic inventory script by ourselves. ...

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