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 -- 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 post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/8997183e-1f2e-4e37-b8b4-599b170ca285%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.