The short answer is: maybe, but it's probably more important that it's considered a feature.
Often in configuring sets of machines, needing to run things locally is required to do some steps once and then apply them to a batch. Thus, almost never do you treat the control machine as "one of the regular nodes". For instance, if configuring webservers, you do not run ansible *from* one of the webservers, so the behavior of the localhost in that play should be innocous relative to the hosts being configured. I think removing this would break some rather fundamental use cases with --limit. I do understand it's common to run configuration against localhost in development or for testing, and in this case I'd recommend splitting inventories. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Matt Schurenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this the correct behavior of using --limit: > > { > $ cat test_inv > [localhost] > localhost > > [foobar] > localhost > > $ cat test.yml > --- > - hosts: > - localhost > connection: local > gather_facts: no > tasks: > - name: localhost > debug: msg=localhost > > - hosts: > - foobar > connection: local > gather_facts: no > tasks: > - name: foobar > debug: msg=foobar > > $ ansible-playbook -i test_inv test.yml --list-hosts --limit foobar > > playbook: test.yml > > play #1 (localhost): host count=1 > localhost > > play #2 (foobar): host count=1 > localhost > } > > I thought that by using "--limit foobar" that it would only match the > foobar host group? Even if "--limit" can only work on one host section in a > play isn't this still a bug or something? > > BTW my ansible version is 1.8 > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/580ecdd7-4145-4b4b-a979-085a4527a29e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/580ecdd7-4145-4b4b-a979-085a4527a29e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgy7rrUM%3DGCrTTA9xiYOXjBdsTS59zdxBux3J-96xjL-_w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
