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#Ansible nerds - for those of you managing large fleets and dynamic inventories, what have you found to be the most effective strategies to organize inventory groups?

In this context it’s multiple domains, with their own group_vars but also trying to keep the roles and playbooks as deduplicated as possible.

Are we creating elaborate groups for triggering the correct roles to apply, or are you pulling other metadata from your hypervisor/CMDB and firing roles based on tags? A combination of both?

(I’m coming in to a brownfield environment where none of this was really well established, and needs a LOT of refactoring - but I need a sanity check and some inspiration. Presently working without #AAP, but driving towards that business case because we need it)

#Ansible #DynamicInventory #ConfigurationAsCode #CaC #IaC #CMDB #Sysadmin #DevOps #linux

Grab your 🧠 magnifying glass for this thrilling expose on... airline fare buckets! 🎉 Dive into the riveting world of dynamic inventory management, because nothing screams excitement like "booking classes" and "seat availability." ✈️ Enjoy your 18 minutes of never getting back. 📉
https://blog.getjetback.com/scarcity-inventory-and-inequity-a-deep-dive-into-airline-fare-buckets/ #airlinefares #dynamicinventory #managementexpose #bookingclasses #seatavailability #HackerNews #ngated

Ansible Proxmox Dynamic Inventory

One of the challenges or points of friction for me using Proxmox in my home lab has been integrating Ansible with it more cleanly. The issue is I have traditionally maintained my inventory file manually which is a bit of a hassle. Part of the issue is that Proxmox doesn't really expose a lot of metadata about the VMs you have running to things like

https://dustinrue.com/2023/10/ansible-proxmox-dynamic-inventory/

#ansible #DynamicInventory #proxmox