In this post, you will learn how to set up a basic Ansible Inventory. Besides that, you will learn how to encrypt sensitive information by means of Ansible Vault. Enjoy!

1. Introduction

In a previous post, you learned how to set up an Ansible test environment. In this post, you will start using the test environment. Just as a reminder, the environment consists of one Controller and two Target machines. The Controller and Target machines run in a VirtualBox VM. Development of the Ansible scripts is done with IntelliJ on the host machine. The files are synchronized from the host machine to the Controller by means of a script.