Change hosts variable when including another playbook

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1

How do I change hosts when including tasks from another playbook? I’ve tried both methods I could find below, but neither seems to work:

`

  • name: example
    hosts: localhost
    tasks:
  • name: execute this task
    include: tasks/task1.yml
    hosts: “{{ name }}.example.com”
    `

`

  • name: example
    hosts: localhost
    tasks:
  • name: execute this task
    include: tasks/task1.yml hosts={{ name }}.example.com
    `

-Tristan

2

you don’t, you create a new play that targets those hosts:

3

I need to be able to do this from a single playbook. What if I create a task that is a shell command that calls into ansible-playbook on a different playbook?

-Tristan

4

A playbook can have multiple plays:

  • hosts: host_for_play_1
    tasks:
  • debug: msg=‘play 1 task’
    ​​ …

​

​- hosts: host_for_play_2
tasks:

  • debug: msg='play 2 task’​
    …
5

I understand that, but it seems that each play can’t have a different hosts set. That is, I would like the first play to have “localhost” as the hosts and the second play to have hosts dynamically set to whatever the first play says it is.

-Tristan

6

This it possible to do, see example below.

7

Using your example (and replacing ‘a1’ with the host I care about) doesn’t appear to work. This is what I see:

PLAY [test] *******************************************************************
skipping: no hosts matched

When I directly copy/paste the hostname into hosts in the second play, it works as expected.

-Tristan

8

It works for me with Ansible 2.1.1.

9

Maybe the issue is that I’m using 1.9.1-1

I was able to finally resolve my issue by doing the below:

10

I do this by setting the hosts line in a playbook to a variable. I’ve been working with virtual machines a lot lately, so the variable I use is vms.

11

What will be the command to pass username and password for both the host considering none of the host is localhost.