Limit hosts for nested playbook

[Andrew]

Is it possible to limit the hosts that run against a nested playbook? For example, I have a site.yml file that includes other playbooks like so:

---

- hosts: all

  roles:

    - foo

- include: foo.yml

For the foo playbook I'd only want a subset of hosts to get evaluated. Some googling pointed me at trying the following syntax but it doesn't seem to work:

---

- hosts: all

  roles:

    - foo

- include: foo.yml hosts=bar

This results in syntax errors. Is this possible?

[Brian Coca]

no

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Brian Coca

[J Hawkesworth]

I suggest you create some groups in your inventory, so instead of
- hosts: all

you run against
- hosts: webservers

(obviously webservers is just an example of a group).

This is nice when reading playbooks as you instantly get a notion of what roles are needed on the different types of server you are managing.

Hope this helps,

Jon