Building the Ansible inventory

In this recipe, you will create a simple group to include the virtual network (VPC) and leverage Ansible roles to complement it to achieve the expected results.

Note

Like in Chapters 8 and 9, we use a static inventory, but a dynamic approach using a GCP dynamic inventory could be used to manage existing infrastructure.

You can reuse the settings in the ansible.cfg file used in previous recipes (for example, Chapters 8 and 9), specifying the vault password file that stores the encryption password for securing sensitive information.

1. Create a hosts files inside the ch10 folder with the following data:

   root@cookbook-lab:~/cookbook-lab/chapters/ch10# vi hosts
   [gcp_vpc]
       demo_gcp_vpc
   

2. Reuse the ansible.cfg file from other chapters (for example, Chapter 9):

   root@cookbook-lab:~/cookbook-lab/chapters/ch10# vi ansible.cfg
   [defaults]
      &...