NetDevOps Pipeline Part 2: Building a Dynamic Inventory with Ansible and NetBox
By default, Ansible relies on static inventory files (hosts.ini or hosts.yaml). In a dynamic, modern network environment, managing these text files manually becomes an operational nightmare. To bridge this gap, we can tie Ansible’s execution directly to NetBox, using it as our single source of truth. Before we configure the plugin, your local control machine needs the official NetBox collection along with its underlying Python API wrapper and timezone dependencies: ...