Parsing and creating new variables from inventory hostgroup

[Brent Weaver]

I have a hostgroup that have 4 hosts in it:

Example:

[ {

"shcdeployer",

"shcnode1",

"shcnode3",

"shcnode3"

} ]

I need to get two things actually

1. A shcnode* node picked out of the list, does not matter

2. A string list of the nodes like: https://shcnode1:8089,https://shcnode2:8089,https//shcnode3:8089

There has to to be some easy trick that I am missing. I am also looking into also creating a python script to parse it as well.

Thoughts?

[Brian Coca]

for the first, the random_choice filter seems to be what you want:
```
anynode: "{{ groups['shc_hosts']|random_choice }}"
```
for the 2nd something like:
```
urllist: "{{ groups['shc_hosts']|map('regex_replace', '^(.*)$',
'https://'')|list|join(':8089,')}}:8089"
```

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Brian Coca

[Brent Weaver]

This does not seem to work:

---

- hosts:

    - "*westus_azure_ops*"

  vars:

    X: "{{ groups['splunk_cluster_label_westus_azure_ops'] | random_choice }}"

  tasks:

    - debug: var=X

no filter named 'random_choice' is likely the error tripping us up

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:20:25 CEST Brent Weaver wrote:
> This does not seem to work:
>
> ---
> - hosts:
> - "*westus_azure_ops*"
> vars:
> X: "{{ groups['splunk_cluster_label_westus_azure_ops'] | random_choice
> }}"
> tasks:
> - debug: var=X
>
> no filter named 'random_choice' is likely the error tripping us up

The filter is called random, random_choice is a lookup plugin.

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Kai Stian Olstad