# Dynamic inventories for Ansible Tower

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventories-for-ansible-tower/15645>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 10, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventories-for-ansible-tower/15645 "2014-07-10T15:53:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![CWS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e495f1/32.png) [@CWS](https://forum.ansible.com/u/CWS)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventories-for-ansible-tower/15645/1 "2014-07-10T15:53:46Z")

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Hi All,

I’m trying out Ansible Tower, and I see that it can generate dynamic inventories for Rackspace and EC2. However, I don’t seem to find an option to add my own dynamic inventories. Reading the page on the latter - [http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_dynamic\_inventory.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_dynamic_inventory.html) - I am under the impression that Tower does support dynamic inventories:

> Tower syncs with all Ansible dynamic inventory sources you might be using, and also includes a graphical inventory editor.

Am I perhaps looking in the wrong place? Do I need to add some permissions to my user (I tried both as admin as well as a specific user with admin privileges for the Organization that owns the inventory)?

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Nottingham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@Bill\_Nottingham](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bill_Nottingham)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventories-for-ansible-tower/15645/2 "2014-07-10T16:38:08Z")

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Claus Strommer (claus.spitzer@gmail.com) said:

> I'm trying out Ansible Tower, and I see that it can generate dynamic  
> inventories for Rackspace and EC2. However, I don't seem to find an option  
> to add my own dynamic inventories. Reading the page on the latter -  
> [http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_dynamic\_inventory.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_dynamic_inventory.html) - I am under the  
> impression that Tower does support dynamic inventories:
> 
> \> Tower syncs with all Ansible dynamic inventory sources you might be  
> using, and also includes a graphical inventory editor.
> 
> Am I perhaps looking in the wrong place? Do I need to add some permissions  
> to my user (I tried both as admin as well as a specific user with admin  
> privileges for the Organization that owns the inventory)?

ansible-project is really about Ansible core usage.

For questions about Tower, please see [http://support.ansible.com/](http://support.ansible.com/) - you can  
submit questions there and get answers from the knowledgebase as well. (The  
answer is that you can do this, but it's a little different than the EC2/RAX  
support.)

Bill