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anta_title: Create an Inventory from Ansible inventory
---
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# Create an Inventory from Ansible inventory
In large setups, it might be beneficial to construct your inventory based on your Ansible inventory. The `from-ansible` entrypoint of the `get` command enables the user to create an ANTA inventory from Ansible.
### Command overview
## Command overview
```bash
$ anta get from-ansible --help
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!!! warning
`anta get from-ansible` does not support inline vaulted variables, comment them out to generate your inventory.
If the vaulted variable is necessary to build the inventory (e.g. `ansible_host`), it needs to be unvaulted for `from-ansible` command to work."
`anta get from-ansible` does not support inline vaulted variables, comment them out to generate your inventory.
If the vaulted variable is necessary to build the inventory (e.g. `ansible_host`), it needs to be unvaulted for `from-ansible` command to work."
The output is an inventory where the name of the container is added as a tag for each host:
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By default, if user does not provide `--output` file, anta will save output to configured anta inventory (`anta --inventory`). If the output file has content, anta will ask user to overwrite when running in interactive console. This mechanism can be controlled by triggers in case of CI usage: `--overwrite` to force anta to overwrite file. If not set, anta will exit
### Command output
## Command output
`host` value is coming from the `ansible_host` key in your inventory while `name` is the name you defined for your host. Below is an ansible inventory example used to generate previous inventory: