hostname in chroot

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i have a series of playbooks that use ansible_hostname to determine whether tasks should run. on a host these work fine as one would expect, but when running ansible inside a chroot environment with /proc,sys,dev mounted. ansible pulls the hostname from the host outside of the chroot into ansible_hostname,ansible_fqdn,ansible_nodename variables

is there a reliable way to tell ansible, this is what the hostname name regardless outside factors?

i tried settings facts to override the three variables or tricking it through the inventory, but ‘ansible -m setup localhost’ inside the chroot always seems to grab the hostname from outside the chroot

i’m likely doing something wrong, but i’m not sure what

thanks

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for what it’s worth i figured out a solution to this using namespaces. i’ll leave the full script upto the reader, but maybe this will help someone later

unshare --uts= chroot /bin/bash

once in the new namespace, you can change the hostname and it does not affect the base system, which i verified with

  • hostname outside the chroot
    hosta

  • inside the chroot

ansible -m setup localhost | egrep “hostname|nodename|fqdn”
ansible_hostname = “hostb”
ansible_fqdn = “hostb”
ansible_nodename = “hostb”