NAME

       ansible-inventory  -  Show Ansible inventory information, by default it uses the inventory
       script JSON format

SYNOPSIS

       usage: ansible-inventory [-h] [--version] [-v] [-i INVENTORY] [-l SUBSET]
              [--vault-id   VAULT_IDS]   [-J   |   --vault-password-file    VAULT_PASSWORD_FILES]
              [--playbook-dir  BASEDIR]  [-e  EXTRA_VARS]  [--list]  [--host HOST] [--graph] [-y]
              [--toml] [--vars] [--export] [--output OUTPUT_FILE] [host|group]

DESCRIPTION

       used to display or dump the configured inventory as Ansible sees it

COMMON OPTIONS

          None

       --export
          When doing an --list, represent in a  way  that  is  optimized  for  export,not  as  an
          accurate representation of how Ansible has processed it

       --graph
          create  inventory  graph,  if  supplying pattern it must be a valid group name. It will
          ignore limit

       --host 'HOST'
          Output specific host info, works as inventory script. It will ignore limit

       --list
          Output all hosts info, works as inventory script

       --output 'OUTPUT_FILE'
          When doing --list, send the inventory to a file instead of to the screen

       --playbook-dir 'BASEDIR'
          Since this tool does not use playbooks, use this as a  substitute  playbook  directory.
          This sets the relative path for many features including roles/ group_vars/ etc.

       --toml
          Use TOML format instead of default JSON, ignored for --graph

       --vars
          Add vars to graph display, ignored unless used with --graph

       --vault-id
          the vault identity to use. This argument may be specified multiple times.

       --vault-password-file, --vault-pass-file
          vault password file

       --version
          show  program's  version  number,  config file location, configured module search path,
          module location, executable location and exit

       -J, --ask-vault-password, --ask-vault-pass
          ask for vault password

       -e, --extra-vars
          set additional variables as key=value or YAML/JSON, if filename prepend  with  @.  This
          argument may be specified multiple times.

       -h, --help
          show this help message and exit

       -i, --inventory, --inventory-file
          specify  inventory  host  path  or  comma  separated  host  list.  --inventory-file  is
          deprecated. This argument may be specified multiple times.

       -l 'SUBSET', --limit 'SUBSET'
          further limit selected hosts to an additional pattern

       -v, --verbose
          Causes Ansible to print more debug messages.  Adding  multiple  -v  will  increase  the
          verbosity,  the builtin plugins currently evaluate up to -vvvvvv. A reasonable level to
          start is -vvv, connection debugging might require -vvvv. This argument may be specified
          multiple times.

       -y, --yaml
          Use YAML format instead of default JSON, ignored for --graph

ARGUMENTS

       host

       The name of a host to match in the inventory, relevant when using --list

       group

       The name of a group in the inventory, relevant when using --graph

INVENTORY

       Ansible  stores  the  hosts it can potentially operate on in an inventory.  This can be an
       YAML file, ini-like file, a script, directory, list, etc.  For additional options, see the
       documentation on https://docs.ansible.com/.

ENVIRONMENT

       The following environment variables may be specified.

       ANSIBLE_INVENTORY  -- Override the default ansible inventory sources

       ANSIBLE_CONFIG -- Specify override location for the ansible config file

       Many more are available for most options in ansible.cfg

       For a full list check https://docs.ansible.com/. or use the ansible-config command.

FILES

       /etc/ansible/hosts -- Default inventory file

       /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg -- Config file, used if present

       ~/.ansible.cfg -- User config file, overrides the default config if present

       ./ansible.cfg  --  Local config file (in current working directory) assumed to be 'project
       specific' and overrides the rest if present.

       As mentioned above, the ANSIBLE_CONFIG environment variable will override all others.

AUTHOR

       Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2018 Red Hat, Inc | Ansible.  Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3
       license.

SEE ALSO

       ansible (1), ansible-config (1), ansible-console (1), ansible-doc (1), ansible-galaxy (1),
       ansible-playbook (1), ansible-pull (1), ansible-vault (1)

       Extensive    documentation    is    available    in    the    documentation    site:    <‐
       https://docs.ansible.com>.    IRC   and   mailing   list   info   can  be  found  in  file
       CONTRIBUTING.md, available in: <https://github.com/ansible/ansible>