You're reading from Learning DevOps A comprehensive guide to accelerating DevOps culture adoption with Terraform, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Jenkins

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818964

Length 560 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code

2. Chapter 1: The DevOps Culture and Infrastructure as Code Practices FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform

4. Chapter 3: Using Ansible for Configuring IaaS Infrastructure

5. Chapter 4: Optimizing Infrastructure Deployment with Packer

6. Chapter 5: Authoring the Development Environment with Vagrant

7. Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline

8. Chapter 6: Managing Your Source Code with Git

9. Chapter 7: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

10. Chapter 8: Deploying Infrastructure as Code with CI/CD Pipelines

11. Section 3: Containerized Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes

12. Chapter 9: Containerizing Your Application with Docker

13. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Effectively with Kubernetes

14. Section 4: Testing Your Application

15. Chapter 11: Testing APIs with Postman

16. Chapter 12: Static Code Analysis with SonarQube

17. Chapter 13: Security and Performance Tests

18. Section 5: Taking DevOps Further/More on DevOps

19. Chapter 14: Security in the DevOps Process with DevSecOps

20. Chapter 15: Reducing Deployment Downtime

21. Chapter 16: DevOps for Open Source Projects

22. Chapter 17: DevOps Best Practices

23. Assessments

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating an Ansible inventory

The inventory contains the list of hosts that Ansible will perform administration and configuration actions on.

There are two types of inventories:

Static inventory: Hosts are listed in a text file in INI (or YAML) format; this is the basic mode of Ansible inventory. The static inventory is used in cases where we know the host addresses (IP or FQDN).
Dynamic inventory: The list of hosts is dynamically generated by an external script (for example, with a Python script). The dynamic inventory is used if we do not have the addresses of the hosts, for example, as with an infrastructure that is composed of on-demand environments.

In this section, we will learn how to create a static inventory in init format, starting with a basic example, and then we will look at the groups and host configuration.

Let's start by learning how to create a static inventory file.