Hi Michael,
One way you can get around this is to use the inventory_hostname variable
in the dest= along with flat=yes, as follows:
- hosts: all
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- fetch: src=/etc/hosts dest="/tmp/{{inventory_hostname}}/" flat=yes
As long as the inventory_hostname is actually a hostname and not an IP,
this should do what you need. Beyond that, you can open a feature request
PR on ansible-modules-core to allow using the inventory hostname instead of
the connection address, when available.
Hope that helps!
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Michael Warkentin <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello, I was wondering if there's any way to use the hostname of a server
> rather than it's IP to generate the file system tree when using the fetch
> module?
>
> Our ansible inventories are set up like so:
>
> aqua-notif-wrkr-01 ansible_ssh_host=12.34.56.789
>
> This ends up generating a tree like this:
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/snaps.michaelwarkentin.com/generate_server_list.py__waveapps_2014-10-21_16-17-17.png
>
> Would setting up /etc/hosts to map hostnames to IPs work, or are we stuck
> with this?
>
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