Inventory pattern not matching in runbook

[titlei...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I've got a simple inventory file setup and am using Ansible 1.8

[tl-prod-mongo]
tl-prod-mgdb-[01:06]

[tl-prod-web]
tl-prod-aweb-[01:06]
tl-prod-bweb-[01:06]
tl-prod-cweb-[01:06]

However, the following runbook fails to match any hosts

---
- name: ping test
  hosts: tl-prod-aweb-[01:02]
  tasks:
    ping:

What have I possibly missed?  Is this an invalid pattern I'm trying?

Thanks,
Jay

[Brian Coca]

try removing the - from the names, use _ instead.


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Brian Coca

[titlei...@gmail.com]

Thanks, that works for the group names.  But what if I'm just trying to specify 2 hosts inside a group of 6?  Would I have to put them all in groups to get around this?

Is a - (dash) an invalid character for hostnames in Ansible?  Or is it splitting on that somewhere when it shouldn't be?

Jay 

[Brian Coca]

the - is problematic with python dictionaries, which is what group
names end up being, hosts should be fine.

list slices (hostgroup[:2]) should work

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Brian Coca

[titlei...@gmail.com]

Well, when I try with hosts

ansible -m ping tl-prod-mgdb-[01:03]

No hosts matched

ansible -m ping tl-prod-mgdb-[:03]

No hosts matched

But...this works as long as I change the group name

ansible -m ping tl_prod_mongo

Maybe the dash is problematic for hosts as well?

Jay