Can I use group name in /etc/ansible/hosts as a variable in templates or playbook script?

Michael_DeHaan · February 22, 2013, 5:23am

rella.guo · February 22, 2013, 5:58am

Thank you!

Another question:
I has one task on host group A. This task need hosts name in host group B as variable in template. Is it possible?

Michael_DeHaan · February 22, 2013, 4:14pm

Absolutely!

in a template contains the list of all host names in group B.

You can even iterate across it to access "hostvars" to pull out the IP
addresses of all the machines in that other group, etc!

--Michael

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