In your case I would recommend reading and playing around with this
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_patterns.html
Without having tested it you should be able to achieve what you asked for
using this:
hosts: *01,&webserver
On Thursday, 8 October 2015 16:14:32 UTC+2, Tom Vernon wrote:
>
> Thanks Matt, inventory_hostname.endswith did the job perfectly. Out of
> interest is there a way of performing an AND in the hosts declaration i.e
> member of webservers group AND hostname ends in 01. This would prevent
> unnecessarily gathering facts on servers that we arent interested in. The
> documentation for patterns seems to suggest that you can perform OR but no
> mention of AND. Apologies for the basic questions, I'm currently reading up
> on this stuff! Thanks
>
> On Thursday, 8 October 2015 14:47:53 UTC+1, Matt Martz wrote:
>>
>> There are a number of ways to do this.
>>
>> 1. Set "hosts" to "web*01" or whatever the pattern is to target only
>> those servers in the play
>> 2. In your when statement use 'inventory_hostname.endswith("01")'
>> 3. inventory_hostname|search('01$')
>>
>> Those are just a few of the many ways.
>>
>> On Thursday, October 8, 2015, Tom Vernon <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there, slowly learning ansible here and having issues with a simple
>>> conditional. I want to run something against all hosts in group
>>> "webservers" that end in "01". The following doesnt seem to match any
>>> hosts (they get skipped), but looks right to me. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> - hosts: webservers
>>> tasks:
>>> - name: check cluster status
>>> command: 'echo $hostname'
>>> when: inventory_hostname == "*01"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
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