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.. _patterns:
The Inventory File, Patterns, and Groups
========================================
How to select hosts you wish to manage
.. seealso::
:doc:`examples`
Examples of basic commands
:doc:`playbooks`
Learning ansible's configuration management language
Inventory File Format
+++++++++++++++++++++
Ansible works against multiple systems in your infrastructure at the
same time. It does this by selecting portions of systems listed in Ansible's inventory file,
which defaults to /etc/ansible/hosts, and looks like this::
mail.example.com
[webservers]
foo.example.com
bar.example.com
[dbservers]
one.example.com
two.example.com
three.example.com
Selecting Targets
+++++++++++++++++
These patterns target all hosts in the inventory file::
all
*
It is also possible to address specific hosts::
one.example.com
one.example.com:two.example.com
The following patterns address one or more groups, which are denoted
with the bracket headers in the inventory file::
webservers
webservers:dbservers
Individual hosts, but not groups, can also be referenced using
wildcards::
*.example.com
*.com
It's also ok to mix wildcard patterns and groups at the same time::
one*.com:dbservers
NOTE: It is not possible to target a host not in the inventory file.