accessing localhost with dynamic hosts for limited tasks

[Daniel Boland]

I'm trying to access localhost when i specify other remote hosts (using ec2 dynamic inventory but not sure if that matters).

But i get this:

PLAY ***************************************************************************

skipping: no hosts matched

Trying to figure out if its an access thing or if there is a way to inject the localhost just for the role i need it. 

I dont want to add localhost to the the inventory list since i dont want to deploy any code there.

Odd thing is, this works fine from my local computer.  Its just an issue on the remote server that i need to run this on.

My computer is OS X and remote is linux.  But ansible was installed using pip on both so shouldn't be any set up differences

Is there a way to make ansible-playbook work on the localhost even if its not in the inventory or can i specify it and ignore it in the other tasks?

Below is the command and the playbook i am using

Thanks

Daniel

Command:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/dev/ -l ~tag_role_web full-deploy.yml 

Playbook:

- name: Get latest Code

  gather_facts: no

  hosts: localhost

  vars:

     next_color_name: "{{ lookup('file', './src/nextArchive') }}"

     update_archive: "{{ next_color_name }}-web"

  roles:

  - role: update-code

- name: Deploy web code

  hosts: all

  vars:

     latest_archive: "{{ lookup('file', './src/nextArchive') }}"

  roles:

  - role: deploy-web

[Brian Coca]

remove the -l from your command line, since you are not passing a limit.

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Brian Coca