I am using ansible 2.1. I have the following inventory host file and a role being called by a play that needs access to the host file variable. Any thoughts on how to access it (currently getting an error):
host file
[test1]
test-1 ansible_ssh_host=abc.def.ghi.jkl ansible_ssh_port=1212
[test2]
test2-1 ansible_ssh_host=abc.def.ghi.mno ansible_ssh_port=1212
[test3]
test3-1 ansible_ssh_host=abc.def.ghi.pqr ansible_ssh_port=1212
test3-2 ansible_ssh_host=abc.def.ghi.stu ansible_ssh_port=1212
[all:children]
test1
test2
test3
role
I have tried accessing the role in the following fashions:
{{ hostvars.ansible_ssh_host }}
&&
{{ hostvars.test1.ansible_ssh_host }}
I am trying to access the ansible_ssh_host in the test1 section.
Error
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "'ansible.vars.hostvars.HostVars object' has no attribute 'ansible'"}
You are on the right track about hostvars
.
This magic variable is used to access information about other hosts.
hostvars
is a hash with inventory hostnames as keys.
To access fields of each host, use hostvars['test-1']
, hostvars['test2-1']
, etc.
ansible_ssh_host
is deprecated in favor of ansible_host
since 2.0.
So you should first remove "_ssh" from inventory hosts arguments (i.e. to become "ansible_user", "ansible_host", and "ansible_port"), then in your role call it with:
{{ hostvars['your_host_group'].ansible_host }}
[host_group]
host-1 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.21 node_name=foo
host-2 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.22 node_name=bar
[host_group:vars]
custom_var=asdasdasd
You can access host group vars using:
{{ hostvars['host_group'].custom_var }}
If you need a specific value from specific host, you can use:
{{ hostvars[groups['host_group'][0]].node_name }}
You should be able to use the variable name directly
ansible_ssh_host
Or you can go through hostvars without having to specify the host literally
by using the magic variable inventory_hostname
hostvars[inventory_hostname].ansible_ssh_host
I've found also a nice and simple way to address hostsvars right on one of Ansible's Github issues
Looks like you can do this as well:
- debug:
msg: "{{ ansible_ssh_host }}"