Lookup host IP address(es) from global_vars

[Sergey Maslyakov]

What is the right way to look up the IPv4 address (or addresses) associated with a host name from global_vars?

Here is the scenario. I use Postgres with Host-Based Authentication (HBA). In order to configure HBA, I need to put IP addresses of the permitted clients into the configuration file, but what I have as the input are host FQDNs that I need to resolve somehow. What would be the best way to do it in a Jinja2 template or within group_vars?

I tried to use Python socket.gethostbyname() but I could not get the syntax right.

Granted, I can fall back to a shell script and templetize it outside of Ansible/Jinja2 but I still hope to find a decent way to do it in Ansible.

Regards,

/Sergey

[David Karban]

Hi Sergey, 

you can try something like:

{% for host in groups['app_servers'] %}

ACCEPT  $FW     int:{{ hostvars[host]['ansible_eth1']['ipv4']['address'] }}     tcp     80,443

{% endfor %}

Key think is hostvars variable.

David Karban
Linux server specialist/Specialista na správu linuxových serverů
www.karban.eu

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[Sergey Maslyakov]

Hi David,

Thank you very much for your response!

My understanding is that this solution requires that Ansible "visits" the remote host to get the list of interfaces and their settings, including the IPv4 address for each interface. For example, I would not be able to use it to resolve "www.google.com" or any other arbitrary string, right?

Cheers,

/Sergey

[David Karban]

Hi Sergey, 

I see, in that case try pipe lookup plugin:

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_lookups.html#more-lookups

And try to resolve IP address from hostname by some cmdline resolver.

David Karban
Linux server specialist/Specialista na správu linuxových serverů
www.karban.eu

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[Duncan Hutty]

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/dig.py

On 9/1/15 0:04, Sergey Maslyakov wrote:
> What is the right way to look up the IPv4 address (or addresses)
associated
> with a host name from global_vars?

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Duncan Hutty
http://www.allgoodbits.org

[Sergey Maslyakov]

Nice and flexible. Thank you, Duncan!

[Sergey Maslyakov]

Duncan gave a link to a very elaborate lookup plugin based on "dig" below.