Practical Ansible 2

Using static groups with dynamic groups

Of course, the possibility of mixing inventories brings with it an interesting question—what happens to the groups from a dynamic inventory and a static inventory if you define both? The answer is that Ansible combines both, and this leads to an interesting possibility. As you will have observed, our Cobbler inventory script produced an Ansible group called webservers from a Cobbler profile that we called webservers. This is common for most dynamic inventory providers; most inventory sources (for example, Cobbler and Amazon EC2) are not Ansible-aware and so do not offer groups that Ansible can directly use. As a result, most dynamic inventory scripts will use some facet of information from the inventory ...