Thanks Kai for responding! Seen that one. Maybe jump_host was really as missleading name. It's really the name of the host I want having execute the commands. Thinking this is the use of delegate_to. /Fredrik
Den lördag 14 oktober 2017 kl. 15:04:52 UTC+2 skrev Fredrik T: > > Trying to figure out how to the get following solved. Coming from Puppet I > have a bit of an adjustment to make. > > I'm trying to configure a few comware/arista switches which are only > accessible via a certain jump host. > > *My inventory look like*: > *[comware]* > switch1 > switch2 > > *[arista]* > switch3 > > *[switches:children]* > comware > arista > > > First my though was to create a role named "my-switches" > Create a playbook with the hosts set to "switches" which would loop > through the list [switch1, switch2, switch3] > Since they are only accessable via a certain jump-node I though using the > "delegate_to: jump_host" for each tasks. > > But I also get some pre-tasks I would like to have executed installing > required pip packages on the jump_host. > > Could really get this sorted out. Pre-tasks not running on the correct > host so then I switched to a different way of doing this. > > Created a dict in the group_vars/all.yml > > switches: > user: admin > pass: password > list: > switch1: > flavor: comware > switch2: > flavor: comare > switch3: > flavor: arista > > > And then setting the hosts in the playbook to "jump_host". Now the > pre-tasks installs correctly and I'm using with_items to loop switches.list > But delegate_to seems to be overrided by the fact that hosts in the > playbook is set to "jump_host". > > The comware module runs ssh against my jump_host for every loop > (with_items) in roles/my-switches/tasks/main.yml. > Some how feels incorrect to build up a list of switches to iterate over > instead of using the inventory. > > Not exactly sure what I'm failing to understand. Tried using the > ansible_host variable in the role but I'm guessing it gets overruled by the > hosts: jump_host defined in the playbook. > > Maybe I'm jumping into ansible not doing the proper homework first of > passing the primer. > > Did my question even make sense? > > Also would be nice to be able to figure out which group a switch came from > in my first example to get the flavor of it not using extra variables when > using groups of groups. > > > Thanks! > > > > -- 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/c2f62e32-287f-4cf8-aea7-84916b4ffb69%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
