# Create an Inventory from Ansible inventory In large setups, it might be beneficial to construct your inventory based on your Ansible inventory. The `from-ansible` entrypoint of the `get` command enables the user to create an ANTA inventory from Ansible. ### Command overview ```bash $ anta get from-ansible --help Usage: anta get from-ansible [OPTIONS] Build ANTA inventory from an ansible inventory YAML file Options: -g, --ansible-group TEXT Ansible group to filter --ansible-inventory FILENAME Path to your ansible inventory file to read -o, --output FILENAME Path to save inventory file -d, --inventory-directory PATH Directory to save inventory file --help Show this message and exit. ``` The output is an inventory where the name of the container is added as a tag for each host: ```yaml anta_inventory: hosts: - host: 10.73.252.41 name: srv-pod01 - host: 10.73.252.42 name: srv-pod02 - host: 10.73.252.43 name: srv-pod03 ``` !!! warning The current implementation only considers devices directly attached to a specific Ansible group and does not support inheritance when using the `--ansible-group` option. By default, if user does not provide `--output` file, anta will save output to configured anta inventory (`anta --inventory`). If the output file has content, anta will ask user to overwrite when running in interactive console. This mechanism can be controlled by triggers in case of CI usage: `--overwrite` to force anta to overwrite file. If not set, anta will exit ### Command output `host` value is coming from the `ansible_host` key in your inventory while `name` is the name you defined for your host. Below is an ansible inventory example used to generate previous inventory: ```yaml --- tooling: children: endpoints: hosts: srv-pod01: ansible_httpapi_port: 9023 ansible_port: 9023 ansible_host: 10.73.252.41 type: endpoint srv-pod02: ansible_httpapi_port: 9024 ansible_port: 9024 ansible_host: 10.73.252.42 type: endpoint srv-pod03: ansible_httpapi_port: 9025 ansible_port: 9025 ansible_host: 10.73.252.43 type: endpoint ```