How to efficiently 'delegate_to'?

[Toni Mueller]

Hi,

in a project to provision stuff, I would like to set a lot of variables
on a host, which I want to use in a playbook, but take the values for
that variable from the host I am delegating to. Ie, in my inventory, I
have


host2 delegate_to=host1
host3 delegate_to=host1
host4 delegate_to=host1
host5 delegate_to=host1


and in host1, I have a lot of things to do, and also a lot of variables
to use. Now, I would like to avoid configuring these variables in the
host_vars for hosts2..host5, but just in the host_vars for host1.
Opening a group is not really feasible, as the association between host1
and the other hosts on top of it, can vary quickly, and there are no
fixed groups.


How would I best address this problem?


Cheers,
Ton1

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

The description of your problem is quite generic, but nothing stops you
from defining variables outside of host or group vars to consume in your tasks.
A common pattern is to read variables via include_vars from a number of files.

Regards
Racke

>
> Cheers,
> Ton1
>


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