tldr/pages/common/ansible-inventory.md

ansible-inventory

Display or dump an Ansible inventory. See also: ansible. More information: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-inventory.html.

• Display the default inventory:

ansible-inventory --list

• Display a custom inventory:

ansible-inventory --list --inventory {{path/to/file_or_script_or_directory}}

• Display the default inventory in YAML:

ansible-inventory --list --yaml

• Dump the default inventory to a file:

ansible-inventory --list --output {{path/to/file}}