Ansible Dynamic Inventory Tutorial

This free tutorial will teach you to use an Ansible dynamic inventory to discover and manage Cleura Cloud servers.

Ansible Dynamic Inventory Tutorial – Description

You are about to use the Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for OpenStack, discover servers in a single Cleura Cloud tenant, and run Ansible ad hoc commands and playbooks against your servers.

Prerequisites

All you need to go through this tutorial is internet access, a web browser, and a Cleura Cloud account.

Our Ansible Dynamic Inventory Tutorial covers a specific use case in Cleura Cloud. Access to the tutorial is free of charge, however we do not provide virtual lab environments. Instead, you follow along using your pre-existing Cleura Public Cloud account and any cloud resources that you create will be charged at our normal rates. If you are new to Cleura, you can utilize our free trial credit to run the tutorial.

Tutorial objectives

Upon completing our Ansible Dynamic Inventory tutorial, you will:

• • know how to activate and use the Ansible dynamic inventory plugin for OpenStack,
  • know how to run Ansible ad hoc commands and playbooks against the servers in your Cleura Cloud tenant,
  • have enough exposure to Ansible roles so you can start developing powerful playbooks targeting different Linux distributions.

Our Ansible Dynamic Inventory Tutorial staff

Christos Varelas

Christos has multi-year experience in technical writing for tech and popular science magazines in Greece. He has also been the publisher of deltaHacker, a Greek monthly periodical on all things ethical hacking. After deltaHacker ran its course, he switched careers and delved into the world of Quality Assurance for software maintenance. Even though that adventure kept him busy much longer than he expected, his fondness for technical writing prevailed. Now, he is a proud (and happy) member of the documentation team at Cleura.

Free resources similar to our Ansible Dynamic Inventory tutorial

We offer a number of free tutorials on various, specific use cases. See our Ansible tutorial, Containerized workloads tutorial, Terraform tutorial, OpenStack Heat tutorial.