Actually, I'm reading Ansible: Up and Running, and under inventory_hostname
it says I did it right, yet when I ran the playbook, I got an error saying
inventory_hostname wasn't defined. I think maybe I should start a new
thread.
On Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 2:42:53 PM UTC-4, richard kappler wrote:
>
> I see what you're saying. Tried to put it into play, but I'm obviously
> still missing some fundamental knowledge. How do I call the variable?
>
> I tried:
> - replace:
> dest=<filename>
> regexp='placeholder'
> replace={{ inventory_hostname }}
> backup =no
>
> and it wouldn't work. I can get the file to work, as an experiment in
> place of {{ inventory_hostname }} I put {{ ansible_eth0.ipv4.address }} and
> the replace worked, putting the IP address of the target system where
> 'placeholder' used to be, so I've got that part down, but calling variables
> I haven't got a handle on yet.
>
> Off to do more reading. Thanks for the help Giovanni!
>
> regards, Richard
>
>
>>
>> I think you should try using the inventory_hostname variable for that.
>> It'll return those serverXX names you defined.
>>
>> If you need more vars per host, I would use host_vars.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_best_practices.html#group-and-host-variables
>>
>>
>> Giovanni
>>
>
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