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an extremely simple playbook:

- hosts:
- test-host
tasks:
- name: AAA
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: AAA

shows results like this:

[WARNING]: Invalid characters were found in group names but not replaced, use -vvvv to see details

PLAY [test-host] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************

PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
test-host : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

so the debug task is either ignored, or had its output suppressed. please, help me make sense of ansible’s behavior and try to figure out which settings could have influenced it.

2

Group names can’t include dashes (‘-’)

3

it’s a host, not a group.

воскресенье, 19 июня 2022 г. в 02:49:01 UTC+5, dnmv...@gmail.com:

4

also, the hostname is altered.

воскресенье, 19 июня 2022 г. в 17:07:49 UTC+5, High Raccoon:

5

also, the hostname is altered.

Try

hosts: "test1-host:test2-host"

Regards
         Racke

6

What’s the output of

ansible-config dump | grep -v default

7

$ ansible-config dump | grep -v default

ANSIBLE_PIPELINING(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = True
DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = [‘/home/szelga/automation/inventory_netbox.yml’, ‘/home/szelga/automation/inventory_static.yml’
, ‘/home/szelga/automation/inventory_test.yml’]
DEFAULT_REMOTE_USER(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = root
DEFAULT_STDOUT_CALLBACK(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = actionable
DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = /home/szelga/automation/password.txt
HOST_KEY_CHECKING(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = False

воскресенье, 19 июня 2022 г. в 21:35:11 UTC+5, uto...@gmail.com:

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DEFAULT_STDOUT_CALLBACK was the reason, I’ve set it up a while ago to suppress the excrutiating amount of output and then forgot about it. thank you very much for your help.

воскресенье, 19 июня 2022 г. в 21:35:11 UTC+5, uto...@gmail.com:

9

@High Racoon

The message is a bit misleading, it is not matching a host so it tries
to match a group (since hosts: allows for host patterns which can
include both), but then it sees the '-' and gives you the message
about invalid groups.

Note for @Todd Lewis

ansible-config dump | grep -v default

no need for that, why you have --only-changed

ansible-config dump --only-changed

10

Thanks, Brian.
You’ve touched my love-hate-relationship-with-ansible nerve. It’s an anti-feature that

ansible-config --help dump

produces output different from

ansible-config dump --help

the latter being the only way to discover “–only-changed”.

And whether man ansible-config works depends on pip vs. system packaging.

Still, good to know about “–only-changed”.

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I need to figure out how to use the argparser library to make those
more congruent.