Ansible without inventory?

[Matthew Bradley]

How do I run Ansible without inventory? I want my playbook to provision a new Digital Ocean droplet and then write its details to a local inventory file. However every time I run my playbook with an empty hosts file it complains, stating "ERROR: provided hosts list is empty"

Am I trying to do something that isn't possible with Ansible?

Thanks,

Matt

[Brian Coca]

I would suggest you read:

http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/guide_aws.html

if you want to avoid writing the initial localhost you can always pass  -i 'localhost,'  to the ansible command (trailing comma is intentional and needed).

[Michael DeHaan]

Yeah the trailing comma is a hack, we should not suggest it in most cases.

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[Sankalp Khare]

Be that as it may, i've found this tip invaluable in quickly applying chosen roles to a few servers / test servers.