# inventory file generated following a playbook run **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 21, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inventory-file-generated-following-a-playbook-run/23308 "2016-12-21T14:38:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fanvalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2bfe46/32.png) [@fanvalt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/fanvalt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inventory-file-generated-following-a-playbook-run/23308/1 "2016-12-21T14:38:10Z")
Hello, I want to deploy on 2 servers an application and then to deploy an apache server and configuring it. My issue is that to deploy the Apache server, I need to know the servers names and ports, I have these informations when running the installation of the application, I don’t want to repeat these information manually in a new inventory file. Is there a way to gather these parameters from a playbook to an inventory file in an automatic way ? I do run a playbook with an inventory file with limits described this way: … [DV70\_DEV1] DV70\_DEV12 ansible\_host=server1 ansible\_user=dv70 product=‘WEB’ instance=‘1’ DV70\_DEV12 ansible\_host=server2 ansible\_user=dv70 product=‘SRV’ instance=‘2’ … [DV70\_DEV2] DV70\_DEV21… DV70\_DEV22 … … I would like to either have another role or play in this playbook, but that needs the parameters set previously. That means I need to generate a new inventory file with the following lines: [DV70\_DEV1] env=‘dv70’ webserver=‘server1’ webinst=‘1’ srvserver=‘server2’ srvinst=‘2’ and so on for all the limits previously deploed by the 1st playbook. - So is there a way to create an inventory file when runnng a playbook. - I didn’t understand about a dynamic inventory script, but it does not seem to be a way to proceed. - I am not sure about delegating\_to as the host I will deply then the 2nd role depends on parameters Any clue about how to proceed ? regards ---
**Author:** ![fanvalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2bfe46/32.png) [@fanvalt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/fanvalt)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inventory-file-generated-following-a-playbook-run/23308/2 "2016-12-22T10:39:54Z")
I think my need is the following: I do run a playbook, first on a play on [servers] hosts, I would like at the end of this play to use the meta: refresh\_inventory so a dynamic invetory script would generate [Apache] hosts in my inventory file and the 2nd play would be depoying on the [Apache] hosts. So is it possible that I gather parameters from my 1st play to be in the input of a Dynamic inventory script ? I don’t find detailed documentation about the use of such a script Regards ---
**Author:** ![fanvalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2bfe46/32.png) [@fanvalt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/fanvalt)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inventory-file-generated-following-a-playbook-run/23308/3 "2016-12-22T11:17:23Z")
add\_host might solve my issue