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reisub83
reisub83

Reputation: 487

Ansible ignoring "add_host"

I'm trying to fetch a file from a list of hosts in an inventory file, and then also from another host that has the same file on a different path.
I don't want to add this particular host on the inventory so I'm trying to manage it through the add_host module to the in-memory inventory

The problem is that plays are executed only on the hosts from the inventory file, and ignoring the one I'm adding with add_host.

My playbook:

---
- name: Play
  hosts: localhost
  vars:
    file_to_fecth: "/home/user/filename"
    dest_dir: "/tmp/"
  tasks:
    - name: add new host
      add_host:
        hostname: server.dns.name
        groups: addedgroup
        file_to_fecth: "/opt/dir/filename"


  hosts: all:addedgroup
  tasks:
    - name: Fetching file
      fetch:
        src: "{{ file_to_fecth }}"
        dest: "{{ dest_dir }}/{{ ansible_host }}_filename"
        flat: yes

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1616

Answers (1)

reisub83
reisub83

Reputation: 487

This is working, thanks to @β.εηοιτ.βε

---
- name: Play
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: add new host
      add_host:
        hostname: server.dns.name
        groups: addedgroup
        file_to_fecth: "/opt/dir/filename"

- name: Play
  hosts: all:addedgroup
  vars:
    dest_dir: "/tmp/"
  tasks:
    - name: Fetching file
      fetch:
        src: "{{ file_to_fecth }}"
        dest: "{{ dest_dir }}/{{ ansible_host }}_filename"
        flat: yes

Upvotes: 1

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