Building the Ansible network inventory

In this recipe, we will outline how to build and structure the Ansible inventory to describe our sample leaf-spine direct current (DC) network. The Ansible inventory is a pivotal part of Ansible as it outlines and groups devices that should be managed by Ansible.

Getting ready

We need to create a new folder that will host all the files that we will create in this chapter. The new folder should be named ch4_arista.

How to do it...

1. Inside the new folder (ch4_arista), we create a hosts file with the following content:

$ cat hosts

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