In Chapter 3, Defining Your Inventory, we looked at a simple example of how you can work with a dynamic inventory, and we walked you through a practical example using the Cobbler provisioning system. However, when it comes to working with cloud inventories (which are simply a form of dynamic inventory, but specifically focused on the cloud), they might, at first, seem somewhat confusing and you may find it difficult to get them up and running. If you follow the high-level procedure outlined in this section, this will become an easy and straightforward task.
As this is a practically focused book, we will choose an example to work with. Sadly, we don't have space to provide practical examples for all of the cloud providers, but if you follow the high-level process we will outline for Amazon EC2 and apply it to your desired cloud provider...
