Building Ansible inventories - Ansible

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Welcome to the guide to building Ansible inventories. An inventory is a list of managed nodes, or hosts, that Ansible deploys and configures. This guide introduces you to inventories and covers the following topics:

Creating inventories to track a list of servers and devices that you want to automate.
Using dynamic inventories to track cloud services with servers and devices that are constantly starting and stopping.
Using patterns to automate specific sub-sets of an inventory.
Expanding and refining the connection methods Ansible uses for your inventory.

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intro_inventory intro_dynamic_inventory intro_patterns connection_details