Building the network inventory

In this recipe, we will outline how to build and structure the Ansible inventory to describe the sample SP network setup outlined previously. The Ansible inventory is a pivotal part in Ansible, as it defines and groups devices that should be managed by Ansible.

Getting ready

We create a new folder that will host all the files that we will create in this chapter. The new folder is named ch3_junos.

How to do it...

1. Inside the new folder, ch3_junos, we create a hosts file with the following content:

$ cat hosts

[pe]
mxpe01 Ansible_host=172.20...