Ansible config and hosts updates.

Author: gregharvey

ansible.cfg

@@ -69,9 +69,11 @@ any_errors_fatal = True
 
 [inventory]
 # enable inventory plugins, default: 'host_list', 'script', 'yaml', 'ini', 'auto'
-enable_plugins = yaml, ini
+# we provide an ini file by default in ce-deploy-config-example.
+# you can use multiple plugins at once, e.g. ini and yaml - Ansible will load all recognised inventory files.
+enable_plugins = ini, yaml, host_list
 # uncomment the below line and comment the above for AWS EC2 inventory discovery
-#enable_plugins = amazon.aws.aws_ec2, yaml, ini
+#enable_plugins = amazon.aws.aws_ec2, ini, yaml, host_list
 
 [ssh_connection]
 # Enabling pipelining reduces the number of SSH operations required to

hosts/hosts

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Docs: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/inventory_guide/intro_inventory.html
+# Plugin page: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/ini_inventory.html
+[deploy]
+localhost ansible_connection=local # do not use ssh for localhost connections to deploy server