Where to store Ansible host file on Mac OS X

Question

I am trying to get started with Ansible to provision my Vagrantbox, but I can’t figure out how to deal with host files.

According to the documentation the should be stor

Answer 1

Here is a description what to do after installing Ansible on Mac, it worked for me: ansible-tips-and-tricks.readthedocs.io

I downloaded the ansible.cfg file to

/Users/"yourUser"/.ansible

and afterwards you can edit the ansible.cfg file by uncommenting the

inventory      = /Users/"yourUser"/.ansible 

line and specifying the path to the ansible folder like shown above. You can create the hosts file in this folder then as well. To try it out locally, you can put

localhost              ansible_connection=local

in the hosts file and try it out with

ansible -m ping all