You cannot force fact gathering on other hosts not in the limit group when
using --limit.
The solution is to not use limit and do something like:
- hosts: all
gather_facts: True
tasks: []
- hosts: "somegroup{{optional_limit|default('')}}"
tasks:
-
And run ansible-playbook sometimes with
ansible-playbook foo.yml -e "optional_limit=&boston"
If you need the behavior.
I agree that's gross.
What we really need to do is be able to allow "--limit" to control the
default limit, and at play level allow a "limit: all" to be passed in
(which should be the default).
Pull requests to this effect, if sufficiently clean would be entertained.
I think that's nicer than having to do go through those hoops above.
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Nico K. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been reading through a lot of posts regarding the subject of "fact
> gathering" and I'm under the impression that it's impossible to force fact
> gathering on hosts when using '--limit'?
> My specific use case would be obtaining IP addresses of all hosts to
> populate the firewall ruleset with.
>
> Ideally I would like to force gathering the facts on a couple of the
> groups I have defined no matter what the '--limit' is set to.
>
> For the time being, is there a work around? Is there an easy way to
> resolve a DNS entry?
>
> Thanks,
> Nico
>
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