Question:
I’m setting up an Ansible playbook to set up a couple servers. There are a couple of tasks that I only want to run if the current host is my local dev host, named “local” in my hosts file. How can I do this? I can’t find it anywhere in the documentation.
I’ve tried this when statement, but it fails because ansible_hostname resolves to the host name generated when the machine is created, not the one you define in your hosts file.
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- name: Install this only for local dev machine pip: name=pyramid when: ansible_hostname == "local" |
Answer:
The necessary variable is inventory_hostname.
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- name: Install this only for local dev machine pip: name=pyramid when: inventory_hostname == "local" |
It is somewhat hidden in the documentation at the bottom of this section.