Glossary

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ansible group

See group.

Ansible inventory project

See inventory project.

group

A group, also known as an Ansible group, is a collection of servers or hosts defined in the inventory file within an inventory project. It allows referencing multiple associated hosts for automation or defining variables in bulk. Once defined, you can use patterns to select the hosts or groups for Ansible to run against.

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group-based environments

Group-based environments refer to an Ansible inventory strategy within an inventory project, where hosts are organized into groups representing different environments (e.g., dev, test, staging, prod). This allows for environment-specific variables and configurations to be managed efficiently using group_vars.

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inventory

See inventory file.

inventory file

An inventory file, also simply referred to as inventory, is a file used in Ansible to define the managed nodes (hosts) that you automate, along with variables associated with those hosts. You can also specify “groups” of hosts, see group. The inventory file is part of an inventory project.

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inventory project

An inventory project, also known as an Ansible inventory project, is a structured collection of files used in Ansible for managing hosts and configurations. It typically includes inventory files, playbooks, host configurations, group variables, and vault files. This type of project is sometimes referred to as a playbook project or configuration project.

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