Using patterns to populate host properties in Ansible inventory file

Question

I have a host file that looks like

[foo]
foox 192.168.0.1 id=1
fooy 192.168.0.1 id=2
fooz 192.168.0.1 id=3

However, I\'d like to more conci

Answer 1

This is best done using Ansible's Dynamic Inventory features. See Developing Dynamic Inventory Sources.

This means writing a script that returns your hostname in a JSON format.