Building Ansible's inventory

After installing Ansible, we need to define Ansible's inventory, which is a text file that defines the nodes that Ansible will manage. In this recipe, we will outline how to create and structure Ansible's inventory file.

Getting ready

We need to create a folder that will contain all the code that we will outline in this chapter. We create a folder called ch1_ansible, as shown here:

$ mkdir ch1_ansible
$ cd ch1_ansible

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to create the inventory file:

1. Create a file named hosts:

$ touch...