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		susi22 on Aug 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AnsibleWorks Raises $6M Don't call it "server manifest". It'll confuse people. You mean "inventory". You can dynamically populate "facts" and "inventory". See: https://github.com/ansible-provisioning/ansible-provisioning http://jpmens.net/2013/06/18/adapting-inventory-for-ansible/ Especially for ec2 there is many modules that allows you to do that too. You can easily specify an inventory file which you populates dynamically. There is also a lot being done about this in v1.3. HTH

mpdehaan2 on Aug 13, 2013 | [–]

Yeah check out the API chapter of the docs, there's information about all kinds of dynamic inventory scripts.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/plugins/invent...

purephase on Aug 13, 2013 | | [–]

Excellent! Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to dive back in and check it out.

davis_m on Aug 13, 2013 | [–]

This is exactly the info I needed for some work I am doing. Thanks!

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