From d99c58ee555e75d3e8c42c023d7138f012036978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcus Bointon Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 19:01:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Mention how to load a specific inventory file (#17348) I had to do a silly amount of searching and reading man pages before I found this vital info - it really should be on this page! --- docsite/rst/intro_inventory.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docsite/rst/intro_inventory.rst b/docsite/rst/intro_inventory.rst index 63a090ccfc..77cfa39163 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/intro_inventory.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/intro_inventory.rst @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ Inventory Ansible works against multiple systems in your infrastructure at the same time. It does this by selecting portions of systems listed in Ansible's inventory file, which defaults to being saved in -the location ``/etc/ansible/hosts``. +the location ``/etc/ansible/hosts``. You can specify a different inventory file using the +``-i `` option on the command line. Not only is this inventory configurable, but you can also use multiple inventory files at the same time (explained below) and also