When using Ansible with AWS, maintaining the inventory file will be a hectic task as AWS has frequently changed IPs, autoscaling instances, and much more.
Here we will install and apply ansible plugin for AWS dynamic inventory which makes an API call to AWS to get the instance information in the run time. It givesthe ec2 instance details dynamically to manage the AWS infrastructure
It supports most of the public and private cloud platforms not limited to just AWS.
The Dynamic Inventory Topology:
Setup Ansible AWS Dynamic Inventory
Test if Ansible is able to ping all the machines returned by the dynamic inventory
Execute Ansible Commands With ec2 Dynamic Inventory
List all instances grouped under tags, zones, and regions with dynamic group names like