Is there a way to shortcut local host?

[ghe...@gmail.com]

This pops up in a significant share of my scripts:

- hosts: 127.0.0.1

  connection: local

  gather_facts: false

Is there any way to shortcut this to something shorter like

- local_script

or somesuch?

[Michael DeHaan]

In inventory

[local]

localhost ansible_connection=local

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[Jesse Keating]

On an individual task level you can do either:

<modulename>: <moduleargs>
delegate_to: localhost


or

local_action: <modulename> <moduleargs>


which will do a local action. However it would do this X times, where X
== the number of hosts in your hosts: definition for that play.

The most clean way to do a single local action is to do like you've
been, create a play with hosts: localhost and the tasks you wish to
execute there. Because it really is a separate play, outside the host
loop of other plays, you do need the play headers.

As of 1.5, localhost is an implicit member of your inventory, with a
default connection of local, so you shouldn't have to specify that bit.


-jlk