Host Inventories

When you are deploying playbooks, you target hosts that exist in "Inventories". These inventories consist of a list of hosts and their corresponding IP addresses, as well as any host-specific variables that may be necessary to declare to run the playbook. You can see an example of my Bunny Lab inventory file at the time of writing this document, below:

!!! note "Inventory Data Relationships" An inventory file consists of hosts, groups, and variables. A host belongs to a group, and a group can have variables configured for it. If you run a playbook / job template against a host, it will assign the variables associated to the group that host belongs to (if any) during runtime.

# Networking
bunny-pfsense-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.1

# Servers
pfsense ansible_host=192.168.3.1
lab-jelly-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.2
moon-storage-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.3
virt-node-01 ansible_host=virt-node-01.bunny-lab.io
virt-node-02 ansible_host=virt-node-02.bunny-lab.io
lab-photos-01 ansible_host=lab-photos-01.bunny-lab.io
lab-veeam-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.8
lab-veeam-02 ansible_host=192.168.3.9
awx ansible_host=192.168.3.10
lab-games-02 ansible_host=lab-games-01.bunny-lab.io
bunny-docker-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.12
mail ansible_host=mail.bunny-lab.io
lab-games-03 ansible_host=lab-games-03.bunny-lab.io
lab-veeam-03 ansible_host=192.168.3.15
alpine-work-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.17
lab-auth-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.18
lab-auth-02 ansible_host=192.168.3.20
container-node-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.19
lab-dc-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.25
lab-dc-02 ansible_host=192.168.3.26
lab-iris-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.27
lab-games-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.28
cloud ansible_host=192.168.3.29
lab-dt-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.30
lab-sophos-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.254

# Workstations
bunny-dsktp-01 ansible_host=10.0.0.20
bunny-lptp-01 ansible_host=10.0.0.17
bunny-lptp-02 ansible_host=10.0.0.4
lab-dt-01 ansible_host=192.168.3.30

# Group Definitions
[domainControllers]
lab-dc-01
lab-dc-02

[domainControllers:vars]
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_kerberos_delegation=false
ansible_port=5986
ansible_winrm_transport=ntlm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

[containerOrchestration]
container-node-01

[windowsServers]
lab-dc-01
lab-dc-02
virt-node-01
virt-node-02
lab-veeam-01
lab-games-01

[windowsServers:vars]
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_kerberos_delegation=false
ansible_port=5986
ansible_winrm_transport=ntlm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

[linuxServers]
lab-jelly-01
lab-photos-01
mail
alpine-work-01
lab-auth-01
lab-auth-02
container-node-01
lab-dt-01
cloud

[workstations]
bunny-dsktp-01
bunny-lptp-01
bunny-lptp-02
bunny-dsktp-01

[workstations:vars]
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_kerberos_delegation=false
ansible_port=5986
ansible_winrm_transport=ntlm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

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