Greetings, I trying to understand if my setup is correct or not given the subject matter.
When I run a playbook on a particular host and a host_vars file for another host has a syntactical error the playbook execution fails because of the broken host_vars file. Here is my inventory file layout docker11_s ansible_host=172.28.5.12 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker12_s ansible_host=172.28.5.14 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker13_s ansible_host=172.28.5.15 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker14_s ansible_host=172.28.5.17 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker15_s ansible_host=172.28.5.18 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker21_s ansible_host=172.28.5.3 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker22_s ansible_host=172.28.5.4 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker23_s ansible_host=172.28.5.5 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker24_s ansible_host=172.28.5.6 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker31_s ansible_host=172.28.5.13 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport docker32_s ansible_host=172.28.5.16 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport mqtts-vdc20_s ansible_host=10.156.20.207 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport mqtts-vdc21_s ansible_host=10.156.21.201 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport mqtts-vdc22_s ansible_host=10.156.22.34 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport mqtts-vdc23_s ansible_host=10.156.23.35 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc60-vm1 ansible_host=172.28.5.14 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc60-vm2 ansible_host=172.28.5.15 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc60-vm3 ansible_host=172.28.5.16 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc30-vm1 ansible_host=10.156.30.232 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc30-vm2 ansible_host=10.156.30.233 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc30-vm3 ansible_host=10.156.30.234 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc34-vm1 ansible_host=10.156.34.45 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc34-vm2 ansible_host=10.156.34.46 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc34-vm3 ansible_host=10.156.34.47 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport camdockein01_s ansible_host=10.255.248.14 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport vdc80_s ansible_host=172.29.32.136 ansible_ssh_user=ipasupport [dockerengines_laptop] vdc80_s [dockerengines_taf] camdockein01_s shortname=camdockein01 [dockerengines_ptk2] docker11_s shortname=docker11 docker12_s shortname=docker12 docker13_s shortname=docker13 docker14_s shortname=docker14 docker15_s shortname=docker15 docker21_s shortname=docker21 docker22_s shortname=docker22 docker23_s shortname=docker23 docker24_s shortname=docker24 docker31_s shortname=docker31 docker32_s shortname=docker32 [docker23] docker23_s shortname=docker23 [vdc60] vdc60-vm1 shortname=vdc60 vdc60-vm2 shortname=vdc60 vdc60-vm3 shortname=vdc60 [vdc70] vdc70_s shortname=vdc70 [vdc21] mqtts-vdc21_s shortname=vdc21 [vdc30] vdc30-vm1 shortname=vdc30 vdc30-vm2 shortname=vdc30 vdc30-vm3 shortname=vdc30 [vdc34] vdc34-vm1 shortname=vdc34 vdc34-vm2 shortname=vdc34 vdc34-vm3 shortname=vdc34 [dockerengines_rs] mqtts-vdc20_s shortname=vdc20 mqtts-vdc21_s shortname=vdc21 mqtts-vdc22_s shortname=vdc22 mqtts-vdc23_s shortname=vdc23 [dockerengines:children] dockerengines_ptk2 dockerengines_rs dockerengines_taf vdc60 vdc30 vdc34 dockerengines_laptop The playbooks are executing using the host names only. The playbooks all start with - hosts: dockerengines Is this behavior normal or am I causing this by how my inventory/playbooks are defined? Regards, Carl -- 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/da77023d-6351-428f-967e-ca639695ada8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.