Dynamic Device Inventory

Dynamic Inventory refers to the process of building the Ansible device inventory by programmatically querying a source of truth (SoT) system for all devices. This has the benefit of always reflecting the SoT in the IAG device inventory, of being easily refreshed, and pushing the creation of an inventory to a third party system (the dynamic plugin). The plugin is then responsible for the generation of the inventory and any filtering or advanced querying capabilities that would be determined by the features of the plugin.

There are a variety of Ansible plugins available in the marketplace for this Ansible capability. In this guide, the following plugins are covered in greater detail, along with the steps to create their device inventory.

➟ Nautobot
➟ NetBox
➟ ServiceNow
➟ SolarWinds
➟ ZPE Cloud