Listing aliases for servers in your inventory file can cause a race condition in some plays when executed multiple times per host. Avoid this.
On Monday, March 20, 2017 at 12:38:19 PM UTC-5, Gabriel Forster wrote: > > I have certain servers that are called various things by different > members of my team. Some say "myserver1" others reference the same server > by a DNS alias "orangeserver" and others reference by another alias > "specialwebserver." > > Let's imagine that the above isn't going to change (at least not anytime > soon). Is there a way I can list all of the aliases in my hosts file, BUT > only have it run a given play on a server once? Obviously with > idempotentcy, it isn't horrible to have it run more than once, but the > redundancy isn't necessary either. > > I'm open to any ideas. Obvious solution would be to get everyone calling > things by the same name, but, again, that just isn't going to happen. > -- 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f8a725ef-348e-4b59-bd78-ad15ede09e96%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
