Ansible hostname alias not in setup

[ProfHase]

Hi, having the following configuration

[my_hosts] 
my_host ansible_ssh_host=123.123.123.123 
my_host2 ansible_ssh_host=234.234.234.234

I want to gather some debug information in my templates.

• How do I acces the alias variable in a playbook/template? ie: debug:
  msg=Myhost is {{ ansible_host_alias }}
  # Myhost is my_host
  # Myhost is myhost2
  
  

I tried to gather facts using ansible -m setup my_host . The variables ansible_hostname , HOSTNAME and HOST contain the machine's hostname, i.e. echo $HOSTNAME which differs from my ansible alias.

- Is there really no such builtin variable?

- Would a feature request make sense, or should I better try to keep all my aliases in ssh_config?

Thanks :)

[Dick Davies]

Try inventory_hostname .

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[ProfHase]

Thanks, that's it. How did you find out? How do I find variables NOT defined in setup module?

[Brian Coca]

inventory_hostname is a 'magic' variable and always present, its not part of fact gathering but inventory definition.

to see if a variable exists for a host you can do:

    'varname' in hostvars[<host's inventory name>]

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[Tomasz Klosinski]

Hello,

Is it possible to access {{ ansible_ssh_host }} variable from inventory in the above example? I need ip addresses to provision VMs before I run Ansible on them.
Thanks in advance,

Tomasz Klosinski

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 22. aug. 2016 10:43, Tomasz Klosinski wrote:
> Is it possible to access {{ ansible_ssh_host }} variable from inventory in
> the above example? I need ip addresses to provision VMs before I run
> Ansible on them.

Yes, but ansible_ssh_host is deprecated in version 2.x so use
ansible_host instead.

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Kai Stian Olstad