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| author | scottb <sydtech@gmail.com> | 2016-11-07 20:23:59 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2016-11-07 20:23:59 -0800 |
| commit | 75459fb68873683f4f52d62d4320ef030803f74c (patch) | |
| tree | b025706867d3989611d678734f1e48af14e46174 | |
| parent | 2de3a5d8494eea3061e10dd4c6085eaeaeda6764 (diff) | |
| download | ansible-75459fb68873683f4f52d62d4320ef030803f74c.tar.gz | |
Update intro_dynamic_inventory.rst
Minor edits for readability.
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diff --git a/docsite/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.rst b/docsite/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.rst index 052df561aa..4d242c1fae 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/intro_dynamic_inventory.rst @@ -133,10 +133,12 @@ If you use Boto profiles to manage multiple AWS accounts, you can pass ``--profi aws_access_key_id = <prod access key> aws_secret_access_key = <prod secret key> -You can then run ``ec2.py --profile prod`` to get the inventory for the prod account, this option is not supported by ``ansible-playbook`` though. -But you can use the ``AWS_PROFILE`` variable - e.g. ``AWS_PROFILE=prod ansible-playbook -i ec2.py myplaybook.yml`` +You can then run ``ec2.py --profile prod`` to get the inventory for the prod account, although this option is not supported by ``ansible-playbook``. +You can also use the ``AWS_PROFILE`` variable - for example: ``AWS_PROFILE=prod ansible-playbook -i ec2.py myplaybook.yml`` -Since each region requires its own API call, if you are only using a small set of regions, feel free to edit ``ec2.ini`` and list only the regions you are interested in. There are other config options in ``ec2.ini`` including cache control, and destination variables. The ``ec2.ini`` file presumably defaults to **all the features** which for many admins is probably appropriate. If you have limited scope of what your ``IAM`` user is capable of, i.e, you would not have access to certain component, just comment/toggle the appropriate lines. For example,if you don't have ``RDS`` and ``elasticache`` access toggle to ``False`` :: +Since each region requires its own API call, if you are only using a small set of regions, you can edit the``ec2.ini`` file and comment out the regions you are not using. + +There are other config options in ``ec2.ini``, including cache control and destination variables. By default, the ``ec2.ini`` file is configured for **all Amazon cloud services**, but you can comment out any features that aren't applicable. For example, if you don't have ``RDS`` or ``elasticache``, you can set them to ``False`` :: [ec2] ... |