diff --git a/roles/ansible-server/templates/ansible.cfg.j2 b/roles/ansible-server/templates/ansible.cfg.j2
index dc3e42c0b5..7bd7cff52e 100644
--- a/roles/ansible-server/templates/ansible.cfg.j2
+++ b/roles/ansible-server/templates/ansible.cfg.j2
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ retry_files_enabled = False
 [inventory]
 # enable inventory plugins, default: 'host_list', 'script', 'yaml', 'ini'
 #enable_plugins = host_list, virtualbox, yaml, constructed
+enable_plugins = ini, constructed
 
 # ignore these extensions when parsing a directory as inventory source
 #ignore_extensions = '.pyc', '.pyo', '.swp', '.bak', '~', '.rpm', '.md', '.txt', '~', '.orig', '.ini', '.cfg', '.retry'