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In Chapter 1, you put together a simple playbook and ran it against your Vagrant machine using the vagrant provision command. You can run that same playbook against any machine that also has a running SSH server by using the ansible-playbook command. First, however, you need an inventory file. In this chapter, we’ll take a look at what an inventory file is, how to run ansible-playbook without Vagrant, and how to leverage the inventory file when you have a complex inventory of machines with which you need to interact.
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- Dynamic Inventory
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Heap, M. (2016). The Inventory File. In: Ansible. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1659-0_2
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