Restrict user providing asterisk * on the prompt

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Hello Everyone,

I am trying to create a self service job template for our users through Ansible AWX , and want to restrict the users to mention the exact host detail where they want to run the job.

During testing I have noticed , If on the limit ( I have enabled prompt on launch ) one provides “*” , it executes on every node in the inventory , which is something I want to avoid and not let happen.

So let me explain you my requirement first

  1. User will login as themselves and run a job template . This job template needs to be run on node or pattern of node or group mentioned by that user.
  2. So I do not want to restrict execution of this playbook to a single group or multiple groups , I would like to promt user to provide hostname where they want to execute this playbook.

How I am trying to achieve this

  1. This is my playbook ( again just a example )
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How many hosts do you have? If they are not many, you could do a multiple choice question on the survey. Then they will be forced to pick one of the hosts defined there.

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Nearly 900 and counting, not feasible .Thanks though for suggestion.

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Why not have a task at the top of your template that checks for regex which in turn will fail the entire job?

Thanks,

John Foley
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Thanks , Thats a good suggestion, I tried something like this

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This is resolved now … Thank you

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