Gathering facts on a host not in the playbook

Hello again,

I came across a situation where I was having a playbook run just to gather facts for a template later on.

Is that actually a problem?

What you are doing should be totally fine and is the way I envisioned
it should work.

Its not a problem at all.

Previously I was running templates based on data
I’d already put into the inventory.

So it was a just a bit of a surprise when I ran the previous playbook without
gathering facts.

Jinja2 gave me an odd error, something about
unicode object has no member…

I can’t reproduce it on my laptop right now so I’ll have to
look into that again later.