Inventory hosts and host vars

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Hey All,

I’m currently using the rax.py file to handle my inventory which is working great. But I’ve now hit a problem, the plugin provides the inventory with the public IP of the instance so if i want to create host_vars for it i think i have to refer to it by the IP. I’d really like to refer to a host by a name so that i can re-run playbooks without having to rename my host_var files to work against new IP’s.

Does anyone have any suggestions or alternative approaches on how i might achieve this?

Thanks!

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This is currently being taken care of in a refactor of the rax.py inventory script.

See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/4326

Testing would always be welcome, so feel free to pull down that version of rax.py for your use!

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Great, thanks for point that out. Will grab it and test it out today!

Chris