Using other popular inventory plugins

So far, the inventory plugins and sources that have been covered have been those built into Ansible and the Automation controller. There are other sources out there for inventory plugins that can be used. Two such examples are NetBox and ServiceNow. They are loaded differently than built-in plugins. The next section goes into the details of loading custom inventory plugins.

As they need a collection installed from a project and a definition file, they can take advantage of custom credential types to populate sensitive and common data. These are not the only two sources, but they are essentially custom inventory plugins included in a collection.

Overview of using custom inventory plugins

Using custom inventory plugins are sourced from scm/git projects. The creation of projects in the Automation controller will be covered in Chapter 10, Creating Job Templates and Workflows. This section will go into detail about how the project folder should...