hostname as a variable in a playbook based on inventory vars

[Saranya N]

I need to get the hostname as a variable in my playbook

I have the inventory defined the inventory like below

[group1]

host1.vs.com type=secondary servertype=vm

host2.vs.com type=primary servertype=vm

[group2]

host4.vs.com type=primary servertype=physical

host3.vs.com type=secondary servertype=physical

I run my playbook with --limit option always so using ansible_limit I'm able to get the variable name of the group.

now depending  on the group i need to get the hostname which is secondary as a variable.

 id if --limit is group1, I need host1.vs.com as a  var...how can i do that?

any help is appreciated, thank you

[Parth Patel]

HI Saranya,

If i didn't misunderstood, would you like to make use of inbuilt special variables to get hostname as - inventory_hostname, inventory_hostname_short which directly gives you hostname value and it can be stored in variable or printed using debug module.

PS :- You can also make use of facts to get hostname -> parse it -> store value in variable.

Cheers,

Parth

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[Saranya N]

H ello,

I did look at magic variables and i was not able to get what i wanted...
i basically want to get hostname which is of type secondary from group1 ... so that i can store it in a var and use elsewhere...

[Saranya N]

I know i can use inventory_hostname but based on condition I want to get that i.,e  type secondary from group1

[Parth Patel]

iterating over hostvars data looks like a bug reported by few of them (found articles). tried but not able to iterate over hostvars using loop or with_items. 

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[Parth Patel]

https://gitmemory.com/issue/ansible/ansible/68364/683214528

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/68364