Run playbook against multiple hosts

[Nitrous]

I have defined my hosts in the variable file:

[servers]

server1 ansible_host=ip address of server 1

server2 ansible_host=ip address of server 2

etc

I have a playbook that looks like this:

- hosts: '{{ hostname }}'

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

  - name: Include vars for vcenter

    include_vars:

        file: /etc/ansible/roles/createvm/vars/main.yml

        name: vcenter

    vars:

      ansible_become_password: "{{ domain_password }}"

  - name: Include vars of server.yaml file

    include_vars:

        file: /etc/ansible/servers/{{ hostname }}.yaml

        name: server

  - name: Wait For Connection to Continue

    wait_for_connection:

      connect_timeout: 30

  - name: Reboot to check for second round of updates

    ansible.windows.win_reboot:

      msg: "Reboot to check for second round of updates"  

  - import_role:

      name: windowsupdates

This playbook works fine if I run the command to specify 1 hostname:

ansible-playbook playbooks/file.yml -e "hostname=server1" -vvvv.

How can I run my file.yml against server1,server2 etc at the same time?

Thanks

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

I suppose that -e "hostname=servers" should do the trick.

Regards
Racke

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[Mike Eggleston]

I must have missed something… why wouldn’t -i $FILE not work?

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[Nitrous]

This is what I got when I ran:

TASK [Include vars of server.yaml file] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /etc/ansible/roles/secwinupdates/tasks/main.yml:12
fatal: [server1]: FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "server": {}
    },
    "ansible_included_var_files": [],
    "changed": false,
    "message": "Could not find or access '/etc/ansible/servers/win_us_bgrsuistg.yaml' on the Ansible Controller.\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"
}
fatal: [server2]: FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "server": {}
    },
    "ansible_included_var_files": [],
    "changed": false,
    "message": "Could not find or access '/etc/ansible/servers/win_us_bgrsuistg.yaml' on the Ansible Controller.\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"
}
fatal: [server3]: FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "server": {}
    },
    "ansible_included_var_files": [],
    "changed": false,
    "message": "Could not find or access '/etc/ansible/servers/win_us_bgrsuistg.yaml' on the Ansible Controller.\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"
}

This is what my host file looks like:

[win_us_bgrsuistg]

server1 ansible_host=x.x.x.x

server2 ansible_host=x.x.x.x

server3 ansible_host=x.x.x.x

I tried to create a seperate yaml file for the servers, called win_us_bgrsuistg , which includes the server1, server2, server 3 names in it, I then got the below error:

fatal: [server1]: FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "server": {}
    },
    "ansible_included_var_files": [],
    "changed": false,
    "message": "/etc/ansible/servers/win_us_bgrsuistg.yaml must be stored as a dictionary/hash"

[Nitrous]

Does my  win_us_bgrsuistg.yaml  file have to be in a specific format, maybe its missing some information, that I am overlooking.

[Nitrous]

I got it work, by following this simple example on git hub:

https://github.com/ryanschulze/ansible_examples/tree/master/simple

Thanks everyone.