Inventory hostname as variable ?

[Julien Tognazzi]

Hi,

I try to search the doc and the list to see if it is possible to use the inventory hostname in playbooks (the one specified in /etc/ansible/hosts).

Because in case the name in the inventory doesn't match the remote hostname (/etc/hosts, cname, etc.), the setup module isn't reporting any ansible variable with this info.

Did I miss something ?

Julien.

[Michael DeHaan]

There's a "magic" variable called $inventory_hostname that matches the
name given in the inventory file, that I think is what you want.

[Derek Carter]

I'm not sure where it is on the docs but the two varibles you get
automatically are

$inventory_hostname

and

$inventory_hostname_short

The latter being everything up to the first '.' in $inventory_hostname

--
Derek aka goozbach

[Julien Tognazzi]

Great !

Exactly what I was looking for.

And, it is mentioned in the docs in the following section.

http://ansible.cc/docs/playbooks2.html?highlight=inventory_hostname#contents

So all is good.

Thank you.