Setting up a dynamic inventory

The chapter-09 directory also has a few dynamic inventory files we are going to use in this chapter. We are going to start with a stripped-down version to ensure the inventory and connectivity from Ansible to Nautobot are working as expected.

Let’s view the nautobot-inventory-01.yml inventory file:

root@nautobot-dev:~/nautobot-book/chapter-09# cat nautobot-inventory-01.yml---
plugin: networktocode.nautobot.gql_inventory
query:
  devices:
    name:
root@nautobot-dev:~/nautobot-book/chapter-09#

This is a basic inventory file that will perform a GraphQL query to Nautobot only asking for device hostnames. This uses networktocode.nautobot.gql_inventory, which we introduced in Chapter 8.

Let’s test it out using ansible-inventory:

root@nautobot-dev:~/nautobot-book/chapter-09# ansible-inventory -i nautobot-inventory-01.yml --list{
    "_meta": {
    &...