Hello René, you can use the group_names and groups variables: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#magic-variables-and-how-to-access-information-about-other-hosts
Hope this helps, Dennis Benzinger | SAP Hybris On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 2:14:23 PM UTC+1, René Gallati wrote: > > Hello all, > > is it possible to get the groupname(s) where a host is placed from > inventory to use later? I have a situation like this: > > [setA] > HostA > HostB > > [setB] > HostC > HostD > > [setC] > HostE > HostF > > So when I'm running on HostC, it should somehow know it is in setB so that > I can iterate over all other hosts in the same group and do something > specific with that. > I know how to do it manually, but it looks very redundant in the config > file to add a custom variable like > > [setN] > HostXX set_name=setN > HostXY set_name=setN > > > just to be able to get at the group name. > > Thanks for any hints > > -- 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/d4ace99c-a7aa-4e2a-b297-7d23611b0f25%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
