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SSH into remote machines using Ansible

Inventories in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform are a fundamental component for organizing and managing hosts or groups of hosts. They provide a structured way to define and categorize the systems Ansible interacts with during automation tasks. 

Ansible inventories let you group hosts based on shared characteristics, such as environment, role, or location, allowing for targeted and efficient configuration management. Defining inventories gives administrators more control over their infrastructure and enables seamless orchestration and deployment of Ansible playbooks across the desired hosts. 

Ansible uses SSH protocol to connect to servers and run tasks, providing flexible and secure options for remote connectivity. This cheat sheet outlines two different methods to manage and configure remote hosts:

• Using machine credentials as variables
• Setting up private and public key credentials

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