If you gather facts you can reference inventory_hostname_short vs running a shell command.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/special_variables.html#term-inventory_hostname_short Walter -- Walter Rowe, Division Chief Infrastructure Services, OISM Mobile: 202.355.4123 On Sep 21, 2023, at 8:02 AM, Veera <sveem...@gmail.com> wrote: I have a 2 tasks in a playbook and from task1 I have a variable collected from the register output as below. - name: Playbook to collect the actual hostname hosts: server1 become: yes tasks: - name: collect the actual hostname shell: 'hostname' register: short_name - name: collect the hostname for the next task set_fact: reg_name: "{{ short_name.stdout_lines[-1].split('.')[1] }}" - name: Playbook to test the new hostname collections hosts: 127.0.0.1 become: yes tasks: - name: print the collected hostname debug: msg: {{reg_name }} collecting the host's shortname using set_fact is working . However the data stored using set_fact in reg_name is not carry to the next task. Is there an option/module available to have the variable from one task to be made available to the next? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e414a185-f743-4618-ab14-b4449dfecf6dn%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e414a185-f743-4618-ab14-b4449dfecf6dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/FF9075A2-E4A7-4E55-9413-872AF345EAC1%40nist.gov.
