why the playbook does not run as many times as there are entries in the hosts file ?

[fanvalt]

Hello,

I did param 2 entries in my hosts file:

[server]

localhost ansible_connection=local ansible_user=fvaltat  PARAM="['tomweb', '', 'Y','1']"

localhost ansible_connection=local ansible_user=fvaltat  PARAM="['openhr', '7.30.060', 'Y','2']"

In my playbook, I did set the hosts to server:

 - hosts: server

   become: False

   become_user: root

   roles:

   - listparam

and I do display the variables using the debug module in the main.yml of the listparam/tasks directory:

- debug: msg="DISPLAY variables from an array PARAM {{ param }} - param[0]-module {{ param[0] }} - param[1]-release {{ param[1] }}  - param[2]-tomtools {{ param[2] }} - param[3]-instance {{ param[3] }}"

But when I run the playbook, I only display the 2nd entry of the hosts file, why doesn't it run the playbook for the 1st entry ?

ansible-playbook -i ./hosts test_host.yml

PLAY [server] *******************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************

ok: [localhost]

TASK [listparam : debug] *******************************************************

ok: [localhost] => {

    "msg": "DISPLAY variables from an array PARAM ['openhr', '7.30.060', 'Y', '2'] - param[0]-module openhr - param[1]-release 7.30.060  - param[2]-tomtools Y - param[3]-instance 2"

}

I do expect to have this display too :

TASK [listparam : debug] *******************************************************

ok: [localhost] => {

    "msg": "DISPLAY variables from an array PARAM ['tomweb', '', 'Y', '1'] - param[0]-module tomweb - param[1]-release  - param[2]-tomtools Y - param[3]-instance 1"

}

[Brian Coca]

hostnames are unique, so multiple entries are merged.

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Brian Coca

[fanvalt]

Thank you but do you mean if I want to deploy on the same hostnames for different ansible_user, this will merge too ?

Example:

[server]

localhost ansible_connection=local ansible_user=fvaltat  

localhost ansible_connection=local ansible_user=greg

regards

[Brian Coca]

only 1 of them will be visible, i recommend using the 'inventory_hostname' as an alias:

[server]

localhost_fvaltat ansible_connection=local ansible_user=fvaltat  

localhost_greg ansible_connection=local ansible_user=greg

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Brian Coca

[fanvalt]

thank you we did use an alias this way:

[server]

alias1 ansible_host=localhost ansible_connection=local ansible_user=fvaltat  

alias2  ansible_host=localhost ansible_connection=local ansible_user=greg

regards