Building an Ansible network inventory

In this recipe, we will outline how to build and structure our Ansible inventory to describe our sample F5 BIG-IP nodes. Building an Ansible inventory is a mandatory step in telling Ansible how to connect to the managed devices.

Getting ready

We will create a new folder that will host all the files that we will create in this chapter. The new folder is named ch5_f5.

How to do it...

1. Inside the new folder, ch5_f5, we create a hosts file with the following content:

$ cat hosts
[ltm]
ltm01 Ansible_host=172.20.1.34

2. Create an Ansible.cfg...