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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 1

How to loop through Ansible inventory in Ansible Playbook but run against localhost

I have a inventory within the hosts file called [WEB], it consists of the servers below.

[WEB] WEB01 WEB02 WEB03

When I declare hosts: WEB, it will iterate through each server and run locally on that respective server to do what it needs.

How can I take the same inventory but run what I want to do on the local Ansible server when running ansible-playbook FILE.YML? For example, I want to run a URI command that has the web server name as a parameter but as said, run it on the local Ansible server to POST to a external website. This doesn't need to run on the web servers themselves but I want to take the webserver names (WEB01, WEB02, WEB03) and run the URI module to post to a site.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 391

Answers (1)

error404
error404

Reputation: 2823

You can loop through the host name vars using with items and delegate that to local host .

OR

If you don't want to perform any action on the hosts in the web group then you can define that in a variable in the inventory then apply with items. specify hosts as hosts: localhost

Upvotes: 1

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