“Ansible Vultr inventory” describes using Ansible to manage a Vultr-hosted infrastructure. Bobcares, as a part of our DevOps Consulting Service offers solutions to every query that comes our way.

Ansible Vultr Inventory: More About

We can use a custom Ansible inventory plugin created specifically for Vultr to dynamically obtain details about the Vultr instances. This enables Ansible to get details about the Vultr servers from its API. We can then use it as an inventory for the playbooks. We must set up the Ansible Vultr inventory plugin before using it.

After setting up, Ansible can interact with the Vultr API to get the details we need about the instances, like IP addresses, server names, and tags. We can then use these details to run playbooks or tasks across the framework. Let’s look into the steps:

1. If we are using the ansible package, we may already have this collection setup. Ansible-core does not contain it. Ansible-galaxy collection list can be used to find if it is set.

2. In order to set it up, we can use the below code:

3. Using the following code, we can use it in the playbook.

So, we can say the plugin is a Vultr inventory plugin, which fetches a list of instances via Vultr v2 API. We can do the setup of this plugin with files ending with ‘(vultr|vultr_hosts|vultr_instances).(yaml|yml)’

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Conclusion

To sum up, the process of creating an Ansible inventory file for Vultr is obtaining the essential details about the instances and arranging them in order.