What if the task for zone file templates is a in a later play where you
might limit the targeted hosts by an external variable you pass from the
ansible-playbook command, and run another prior play for all hosts that you
need in another play above it. not a clean solution, but will possibly work
On 12 February 2014 05:36, Christopher O'Connell <c...@fasttcp.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm currently wrestling with creating DNS zonefiles when running a
> playbook which uses tempates to set NS authority records based on the
> members of the 'dns' group.
>
> Consider the template snippet:
>
> {% for host in groups['dns-edge'] %}
> {% if hostvars[host]['ansible_default_ipv4'] is defined %}
> {{ domain }} IN NS {{
> hostvars[host]['ansible_default_ipv4']['address'] }}
> {% endif %}
> {% endfor %}
>
> You'll notice the extra if statement in there. The problem is that if
> --limit is applied when the playbook is run, it only will render out a
> single NS record instead of the whole list of machines in the dns group,
> since gather_facts hasn't been run on those machines.
>
> Question: Is there anyway to force ansible to run gather facts on the
> whole group even if limit is applied on the command line.
> Follow up: If not, can anyone think of a way of doing this without
> defining some global like "dns_authoritative_server" containing a static
> list?
>
> All the best,
>
> ~ Christopher
>
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