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Mastering Python Networking
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Mastering Python Networking

by Eric Chou
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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By default, Ansible looks at the /etc/ansible/hosts file for hosts specified in your playbook. As mentioned, I find it more clear to specify the host file via the -i option as we have been doing up to this point. To expand on our previous example, we can write our inventory host file as follows:

      [ubuntu]      192.168.199.170      [nexus]      192.168.199.148      192.168.199.149      [nexus:vars]      username=cisco      password=cisco      [nexus_by_name]      switch1 ansible_host=192.168.199.148      switch2 ansible_host=192.168.199.149

As you may have guessed, the square bracket headings specifies group names, so later on in the playbook, we can point to this group. For example, in cisco_1.yml and cisco_2.yml, I can act on all hosts specified under the nexus group to the ...

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ISBN: 9781784397005