Hi Sergey,

I see, in that case try pipe lookup plugin:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_lookups.html#more-lookups

And try to resolve IP address from hostname by some cmdline resolver.


David Karban
Linux server specialist/Specialista na správu linuxových serverů
www.karban.eu

2015-09-01 6:36 GMT+02:00 Sergey Maslyakov <[email protected]>:

> Hi David,
>
> Thank you very much for your response!
>
> My understanding is that this solution requires that Ansible "visits" the
> remote host to get the list of interfaces and their settings, including the
> IPv4 address for each interface. For example, I would not be able to use it
> to resolve "www.google.com" or any other arbitrary string, right?
>
>
> Cheers,
> /Sergey
>
> On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 11:18:55 PM UTC-5, David Karban wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sergey,
>>
>> you can try something like:
>> {% for host in groups['app_servers'] %}
>> ACCEPT  $FW     int:{{ hostvars[host]['ansible_eth1']['ipv4']['address']
>> }}     tcp     80,443
>> {% endfor %}
>>
>> Key think is hostvars variable.
>>
>> David Karban
>> Linux server specialist/Specialista na správu linuxových serverů
>> www.karban.eu
>>
>> 2015-09-01 6:04 GMT+02:00 Sergey Maslyakov <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> What is the right way to look up the IPv4 address (or addresses)
>>> associated with a host name from global_vars?
>>>
>>> Here is the scenario. I use Postgres with Host-Based Authentication
>>> (HBA). In order to configure HBA, I need to put* IP addresses* of the
>>> permitted clients into the configuration file, but what I have as the input
>>> are *host FQDNs* that I need to resolve somehow. What would be the best
>>> way to do it in a Jinja2 template or within group_vars?
>>>
>>> I tried to use Python socket.gethostbyname() but I could not get the
>>> syntax right.
>>>
>>> Granted, I can fall back to a shell script and templetize it outside of
>>> Ansible/Jinja2 but I still hope to find a decent way to do it in Ansible.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /Sergey
>>>
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