Summary
Explore how to effectively manage your infrastructure inventory using Ansible. Learn to create inventories, organize hosts into groups, store variables neatly, and securely manage secrets with Ansible Vault. Understand practical commands for encrypting and handling sensitive data to maintain security in automation workflows.
We'll cover the following...
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This chapter introduced inventories, groups, and Ansible vault.
Inventory
We started with introducing inventories, and the INI file as an inventory source. You learned how to create your first inventory and store group and host variables in it.
Groups
We further introduced groups to keep our inventory clean and better organize the infrastructure. You learned how you could ...