Configuring Ansible basic files

• Inventory file

This file describes the list of server and groups Ansible is going to work on, our sample structure is going to be:

[virtualhosts]
ubuntu-1
ubuntu-2

Ansible has a default location to add its config files. The installation for Ubuntu already created the folder and basic files, lets add the hosts in the default hosts file for ansible:

sudo nano /etc/ansible/hosts

and add the lines above into it.

If we do not edit the default location we can create a inventory file in our working folder and jusr call it on every run with:

-i inventory.cfg