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.. _patterns:
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The Inventory File, Patterns, and Groups
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How to select hosts you wish to manage
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.. seealso::
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:doc:`examples`
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Examples of basic commands
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:doc:`playbooks`
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Learning ansible's configuration management language
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.. _inventoryformat:
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Inventory File Format
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+++++++++++++++++++++
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Ansible works against multiple systems in your infrastructure at the
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same time. It does this by selecting portions of systems listed in
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Ansible's inventory file, which defaults to /etc/ansible/hosts, and
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looks like this::
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mail.example.com
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[webservers]
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foo.example.com
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bar.example.com
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[dbservers]
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one.example.com
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two.example.com
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three.example.com
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The things in brackets are group names, you don't have to have them,
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but they are useful.
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Selecting Targets
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+++++++++++++++++
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These patterns target all hosts in the inventory file::
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all
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*
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Basically 'all' is an alias for '*'. It is also possible to address a specific host or hosts::
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one.example.com
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one.example.com:two.example.com
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192.168.1.50
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192.168.1.*
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The following patterns address one or more groups, which are denoted
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with the aforementioned bracket headers in the inventory file::
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webservers
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webservers:dbservers
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Individual host names (or IPs), but not groups, can also be referenced using
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wildcards::
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*.example.com
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*.com
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It's also ok to mix wildcard patterns and groups at the same time::
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one*.com:dbservers
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.. note::
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It is not possible to target a host not in the inventory file. This is a safety feature.
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Easy enough. Now see :doc:`examples` and then :doc:`playbooks` for how to do things to selected hosts.
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