Building an Ansible inventory

In this recipe, we will outline how to build an Ansible inventory to describe the network infrastructure setup that we will build across the Azure public cloud. This is a necessary step as we will define all of our virtual networks across all of the regions in which we will deploy our infrastructure.

How to do it...

1. Create the hosts file inside the ch8_Azure directory with the following data:

$ cat hosts

[az_net]

eu_az_net

us_az_net

[eu]

eu_az_net

[us]

us_az_net

2. Create the Ansible.cfg file with the following content:

$ cat Ansible.cfg

[defaults]

inventory=hosts

retry_files_enabled=False

gathering=explicit

host_key_checking=False

action_warnings=False

3. Create the group_var folder and the eu.yml and us.yml...