Is there any way for indirect reference in a playbook?

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Haven’t found any info about this. I can probably work around this itch, but if variable indirection is available, I would use it.

Cheers!

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You can't do a Perl style $$var, but you can use hashes to simulate this.

$hash.{$somevar}

So essentially you can do this:

$hostvars.{$ansible_hostname}.{$variable_name}

Syntax differences if we are talking about Jinja2 versus playbooks, of course.

$ansible_hostname is an automatically set magic variable.

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Thanks! Very useful trick.