Hi Richard,
I'm sure there's more than one way to skin a cat, here, but I set up my
hosts file thusly, and it does the job:
[rails]
rails0 ansible_ssh_host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
rails1 ansible_ssh_host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
rails2 ansible_ssh_host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
I believe when doing this, you're just aliasing the hostname for the ip
number.
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 11:45:25 AM UTC-5, richard kappler wrote:
>
> New to Ansible here, and have a question on using an inventory_hostname
> variable.
>
> I have a playbook that deploys an add-on to numerous servers, using an
> inventory list of IP addresses setup as so:
>
> [servers01]
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>
> [servers02]
> zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
>
> and so on.
>
> One of the plays edits a configuration file with:
>
> - name: edit inputs.conf for server name
> replace:
> dest=/path/to/inputs/conf
> regexp='PLACEHOLDER'
> replace="{{ inventory_hostname }}"
> backup=no
>
> This playbook has been tested in our local test environment and works
> well, but it has now been decided to use a text hostname instead of an IP
> address. I have updated the inventory file as follows:
>
> [servers01]
> hostname1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> hostname2 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>
> [servers02]
> hostname3 zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
>
> and so on.
>
> My question is, does inventory_hostname pull out hostname1 or still pull
> out the IP address?
>
> regards, Richard
>
>
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