Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

You can use inventory plug-ins provided by collections to dynamically obtain lists of hosts and groups from sources such as cloud, virtualization, and systems management platforms.

Dynamic inventory scripts can generate host and group information from sources external to Ansible.

You can use the yaml inventory plug-in to write static inventory files in YAML format.

You can use the ansible-navigator inventory command to help you convert an inventory file in INI format into YAML format.

A good practice is to keep most variables out of static inventory files.

Take advantage of inventory groups and the group_vars/ and host_vars/ directories to improve project maintainability.

Use the special inventory variables to control connections to hosts and use inventory hostnames to make playbook output more readable.