In many deployments, people do not run the Ansible playbooks directly via command line. In the long term, it is not flexible and cannot provide proper permission granulation as well as trusted code control. So people use Ansible or its free version – AWX. Every playbook, no matter how you run it, needs an inventory definition. Sometimes you use static files with a list of hosts, another time you use the script that dynamically provides the inventory for the playbook. We call it then a dynamic inventory.

If you keep your Ansible project with all scripts and playbooks on GIT repository, you can import it to AWX. You can also maintain dynamic inventory scripts as a part of your project and use them to build AWX inventory.

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