Ansible also trying to reach the groupname as a host

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This has never happened to me, is this all you have in your inventory file?

I am not sure I understand the second question...

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This has never happened to me, is this all you have in your inventory file?

I don’t really know what happened, but I think I got the names of my groups mixed up. I’ve since cleaned up my /etc/ansible/hosts file a bit and it has not happened anymore.

I am not sure I understand the second question…

Well consider this:

cat /etc/ansible/hosts

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Make that

[world:children]
north
south

and use ‘world’ as the groupname.

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Ah, so the keyword “:children” tells ansible that this is a group made out of groups? (Which also explains why ansible would also start trying “north” and “south” as if they where hostnames…)

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Yes, that’s correct. You can also nest this and make groups of groups of groups, etc.

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Excellent, thanks!