Excel Ansible Inventory
A dynamic Ansible inventory script that converts Excel spreadsheets into Ansible inventories, enabling quick automation from existing data exports.
What is Excel Ansible Inventory?
ansible_xlsx_inventory is a dynamic inventory script for Ansible that converts Excel spreadsheets into Ansible inventories. It solves the problem of manually creating inventory files when server data is exported from other tools into Excel, enabling rapid automation deployment. The script reads Excel files, extracts host information, groups hosts by columns, and automatically generates host variables.
System administrators, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals who use Ansible for automation and frequently receive server data in Excel exports from third-party tools.
Developers choose this script because it eliminates manual inventory creation, leverages existing Excel data seamlessly, and integrates with AWX/Ansible Tower. Its automatic variable conversion and flexible grouping save time and reduce errors in infrastructure automation workflows.
Overview
Turn any Excel Sheet into an Ansible Inventory
Use Cases
Best For
- Quickly converting Excel server exports into Ansible inventories
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