Inventory files are simple files listing the servers that are present. It’s not much different from an .ini file where one line holds the information for one server.
Example inventory file
[example]
www1.example.com
www2.example.comIn this example, the example is a group of servers. When called by ansible, the command will execute on all the servers specified below. In this case www1 and www2
This file can be in any directories as long as it’s being called by ansible from the current location the user is situated ; So we can create a inventory directory and set our hosts.ini file there.
important : the .ini extension is actually useless for ansible. Here this gives only the visual aid that the file is in an ini format