Red Hat Ansible for Network Automation
After completing this section, you should be able to identify the data files used to define Ansible's scope.
It helps to be familiar with the file and data formats used by Ansible. Here is a list of formats, broken down with sublists describing where each format is used:
INI format
The Ansible configuration file,
ansible.cfgInventory files (inventory files may also use YAML format)
YAML
Playbook files
Inventory files, optionally
Other included files, such as role files
JSON
The
ansible-playbookprogram returns variable data in JSON form
