ansible-inventory

Show Ansible inventory information, by default it uses the inventory script JSON format

Synopsis 

usage: ansible-inventory [-h] [--version] [-v] [-i INVENTORY] [-l SUBSET]
                      [--flush-cache] [--vault-id VAULT_IDS]
                      [-J | --vault-password-file VAULT_PASSWORD_FILES]
                      [--playbook-dir BASEDIR] [-e EXTRA_VARS] [--list]
                      [--host HOST] [--graph] [-y] [--toml] [--vars]
                      [--export] [--output OUTPUT_FILE]
                      [group]

Description 

used to display or dump the configured inventory as Ansible sees it

Common Options 

--export: When doing –list, represent in a way that is optimized for export,not as an accurate representation of how Ansible has processed it

--flush-cache: clear the fact cache for every host in inventory

--graph: create inventory graph, if supplying pattern it must be a valid group name. It will ignore limit

--host <HOST>: Output specific host info, works as inventory script. It will ignore limit

--list: Output all hosts info, works as inventory script

--output <OUTPUT_FILE>: When doing –list, send the inventory to a file instead of to the screen

--playbook-dir <BASEDIR>: Since this tool does not use playbooks, use this as a substitute playbook directory. This sets the relative path for many features including roles/ group_vars/ etc.

--toml: Use TOML format instead of default JSON, ignored for –graph

--vars: Add vars to graph display, ignored unless used with –graph

--vault-id: the vault identity to use. This argument may be specified multiple times.

--vault-password-file, --vault-pass-file: vault password file

--version: show program’s version number, config file location, configured module search path, module location, executable location and exit

-J, --ask-vault-password, --ask-vault-pass: ask for vault password

-e, --extra-vars: set additional variables as key=value or YAML/JSON, if filename prepend with @. This argument may be specified multiple times.

-h, --help: show this help message and exit

-i, --inventory, --inventory-file: specify inventory host path or comma separated host list. –inventory-file is deprecated. This argument may be specified multiple times.

-l <SUBSET>, --limit <SUBSET>: further limit selected hosts to an additional pattern

-v, --verbose: Causes Ansible to print more debug messages. Adding multiple -v will increase the verbosity, the builtin plugins currently evaluate up to -vvvvvv. A reasonable level to start is -vvv, connection debugging might require -vvvv. This argument may be specified multiple times.