How to pass 'hosts' value to an included/imiported playbook?

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I’ve playbook A to include roles to conduct an operation. Now I want to create playbook B to import/include playbook A but want to pass ‘hosts’ value to A. In other words, I want to make A to work dynamically with different hosts depending on the playbooks (B/C/D/E/etc.) that include/import it.

I’ve searched around and couldn’t find a good way to do it, I’m running Ansible 2.7.10

I tried in Playbook B like [ -import_playbook playbook-A.yml my-host=‘host_B_name’] (in playbook A [ hosts: {{‘my-host’}}]), but got error: Invalid variable name in vars specified for PlaybookInclude: ‘my-host’ is not a valid variable name

Any help or idea here?

Thanks in advance!

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I've playbook A to include roles to conduct an operation. Now I want to create playbook B to import/include playbook A but want to pass 'hosts' value to A. In other words, I want to make A to work dynamically with different hosts depending on the playbooks (B/C/D/E/etc.) that include/import it.

I've searched around and couldn't find a good way to do it, I'm running Ansible 2.7.10

I tried in Playbook B like [ -import_playbook playbook-A.yml my-host='host_B_name'] (in playbook A [ hosts: {{'my-host'}}]), but got error: Invalid variable name in vars specified for PlaybookInclude: 'my-host' is not a valid variable name

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html#creating-valid-variable-names