playbooks and hosts variables

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I have a created a set of playbooks to deploy a server from a template in vmware. I have to admit this works great. The only changes I need to make are a few variables in a vars file and the hosts file. My question is in regarding the hosts file. Is it possible to use variables within the hosts file so that I only have to make changes in just my vars file or do I always have to modify the hosts file to add the ip address of the server for further configuration in some of the playbooks. I have tried a couple of things but unsuccessful.

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I have a created a set of playbooks to deploy a server from a template in vmware. I have to admit this works great.
The only changes I need to make are a few variables in a vars file and the hosts file. My question is in regarding the
hosts file. Is it possible to use variables within the hosts file

so that I only have to make changes in just my vars

file or do I always have to modify the hosts file to add the ip address

of the server for further configuration in some

of the playbooks. I have tried a couple of things but unsuccessful.

Hello Rene,

which hosts file are you referring to?

Regards
        Racke