# Online.net Guide

## Introduction

Online is a French hosting company mainly known for providing bare-metal servers named Dedibox. Check it out: https://www.online.net/en

### Dynamic inventory for Online resources

Ansible has a dynamic inventory plugin that can list your resources.

1. Create a YAML configuration such as `online_inventory.yml` with this content:

    plugin: online

2. Set your `ONLINE_TOKEN` environment variable with your token.

     You need to open an account and log into it before you can get a token. You can find your token at the following page: https://console.online.net/en/api/access

3. You can test that your inventory is working by running:

    $ ansible-inventory -v -i online_inventory.yml --list

4. Now you can run your playbook or any other module with this inventory:

    $ ansible all -i online_inventory.yml -m ping
    sd-96735 | SUCCESS => {
        "changed": false,
        "ping": "pong"
    }