Thanks James, I'll give that a try!
Sorry about the double-post as well - I didn't realize that the forum was
moderated, so I thought there was a glitch when I submitted my first
message.
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:52:13 AM UTC-4, James Cammarata wrote:
>
> 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]
> <javascript:>> 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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