# Passing hosts as a variable to a playbook

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/passing-hosts-as-a-variable-to-a-playbook/18078>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 24, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/passing-hosts-as-a-variable-to-a-playbook/18078 "2015-04-24T14:54:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![KSS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@KSS](https://forum.ansible.com/u/KSS)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/passing-hosts-as-a-variable-to-a-playbook/18078/1 "2015-04-24T14:54:50Z")

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Hi,

I’m attempting to pass a host as a variable to a playbook, but this simply results in “skipping: no hosts matched”.

# ansible --version

ansible 1.9.0.1

------------- Playbook ---------------

# cat kstest.yml

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/passing-hosts-as-a-variable-to-a-playbook/18078/2 "2015-04-24T15:05:37Z")

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the host still needs to exist in the inventory

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**Author:** ![KSS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@KSS](https://forum.ansible.com/u/KSS)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/passing-hosts-as-a-variable-to-a-playbook/18078/3 "2015-04-24T16:03:07Z")

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Understood. Great, thanks.