How to install Datadog on AWS hosts with Ansible dynamic inventories

This guide explains how to use Ansible, an automation tool, to manage and configure infrastructure and applications across platforms like AWS. It demonstrates how to install the Datadog Agent Ansible role, create a dynamic inventory of AWS EC2 instances in a single region, create an Ansible playbook that automatically deploys the Agent to the dynamic inventory, and monitor your Ansible-managed instances with Datadog. The guide also provides sample configurations for setting up EC2 instances with Ansible and discusses using Ansible vault for managing and securing keys in production-ready configurations.