"Actually I think that he is trying to configure something for a group of
hosts rather than configure something on a group of hosts."
Still:
- hosts: whichever
- local_action: shell echo one host name name is {{ item }}
with_items: groups.monitoring
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Adam Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually I think that he is trying to configure something for a group of
> hosts rather than configure something on a group of hosts. For example
> lets assume that you have a DHCP server and you want to configure static ip
> addresses for each of your servers. You could run through each host
> grabbing all of the MAC addresses and IP addresses from each server but you
> would only be configuring them on one server.
>
> I am not saying that that is the case and I am curious as to what the case
> is, but that is an example of what I think we are being asked for here.
> On Apr 29, 2014 11:36 AM, "nZac" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "I want is simply to have the task run for each item in "mylist" for
>> each host in "somegroup"."
>>
>> Ansible loops through your groups and hosts and executes tasks against
>> them. Therefore there is no need to manage an outer loop, Ansible does it
>> for you and is central to how Ansible works.
>>
>> "Thus, have the task run for 5 times: for item1, item2, item3, item4 and
>> item5."
>>
>> This inner loop is as simple as with_items as already suggested.
>>
>> Does that help or did I confuse you more?
>>
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