Ansible 101 - Episode 11 - Dynamic Inventory and Smart Inventories

Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy) demonstrates dynamic inventory, building inventory from dynamic sources like custom backends or cloud infrastructure systems like AWS EC2.

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Contents:

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:22 - Intro
00:09:00 - What broke last episode?
00:11:24 - Questions from last episode
00:20:00 - Inventory group_vars and host_vars
00:24:32 - Building dynamic inventory in PHP
00:26:47 - Use ansible-inventory CLI
00:33:44 - Python dynamic inventory example
00:38:30 - Using inventory plugins
00:41:04 - AWS inventory plugin demo
00:48:32 - Dynamic inventory in Ansible Tower
00:55:20 - More advanced inventory examples
00:58:58 - Answering live chat questions
01:02:06 - Outtro