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eliassal

Reputation: 397

Ansible Playbook skipping: no hosts matched

I have a directory where I created ansible.cfg, inventory_win and windesk.yml(my playbook). In ansible.cfg I defined the following

[defaults]
host_key_checking=False
ansible_python_interpreter= /usr/bin/python3
hostfile = inventory_win

Inside inventory_win I have

myfirsthost ansible_host=192.168.10.30
my2ndthost2 ansible_host=192.168.10.34

[windesk]
myfirsthost
my2ndthost2

[datacenter:children]
windesk

In windesk.yml, I have

---

- hosts: windesk
  vars:
    ansible_site_path: "c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\some\\"
    vsite: "Default Web Site"
    vsiteindexfile: "index3.html"
 
  tasks:
  - name: create new website's directory
    win_file: path={{ ansible_site_path }} state=directory

  - name: Create a virtual directory if it does not exist
    win_iis_virtualdirectory:
      name: somedirectroy
      site: "{{ vsite }}"
      state: present
      physical_path: "{{ ansible_site_path }}"

When I run

ansible-playbook windesk.yaml

I get

[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all' [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: windesk

PLAY [windesk] ******************************************************************************************** skipping: no hosts matched

PLAY RECAP

but running

ansible-playbook -i inventory_win windesk.yaml

it works fine and I get the expected results

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3117

Answers (1)

Chris Doyle
Chris Doyle

Reputation: 11992

Your definition in the ansible.cfg is incorrect. The docs detail that the key name should be inventory not hostfile

Description Comma separated list of Ansible inventory sources

Type pathlist

Default /etc/ansible/hosts

Ini Section [defaults]

Key inventory

[defaults]
host_key_checking = False
ansible_python_interpreter =/ usr/bin/python3
inventory = inventory_win

OUTPUT

[centos@vps-f116ed9f stack_ansible]$ ansible-playbook windesk.yml -vvv
ansible-playbook 2.9.27
  config file = /home/centos/stack_ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/home/centos/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-playbook
  python version = 2.7.5 (default, Jun 28 2022, 15:30:04) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)]
Using /home/centos/stack_ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
host_list declined parsing /home/centos/stack_ansible/inventory_win as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/centos/stack_ansible/inventory_win as it did not pass its verify_file() method
auto declined parsing /home/centos/stack_ansible/inventory_win as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/centos/stack_ansible/inventory_win inventory source with ini plugin

Upvotes: 2

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