Hello Jordan, That's exactly my problem! Now i understand why it's not on the second play. I get the variable again on the second play and it's working properly.
Thanks a lot for the exaplanation! David On Tue, May 8, 2018, 22:00 Jordan Borean <[email protected]> wrote: > Without seeing the full playbook it is hard to actually confirm what you > are doing but it sounds like you have 2 plays in your playbook, 1 to get > the host info and add it, the other to run tasks on that new host. When you > run set_fact or register in a play, that variable/fact is only registered > for the hosts it is running on. If you were to run a 2nd play on a > different set of hosts those variables are no longer accessible like you > would do it normally. What you need to do is access those variables from > the hostvars dict and specify the original host, I'm going to guess the > first play is run on localhost so it would be *{{ > hostvars['localhost']['endpoint'] }}*. Here is an example of it in action > > > - name: 1st play that runs on localhost and defines the var > hosts: localhost > tasks: > - name: set variable/fact on the first play for localhost > set_fact: > my_var: abc > > - name: 2nd play that runs on another host > hosts: other-group > tasks: > - name: output my_var registered on localhost > debug: > var: hostvars['localhost']['my_var'] > > As you can see, the 2nd play runs on a different group and I use hostvars > to lookup the variables defined on localhost and finally get the my_var > variable. > > Thanks > > Jordan > > -- > 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/423db0a1-4405-4f50-bab4-3afe35ec23a9%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/423db0a1-4405-4f50-bab4-3afe35ec23a9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAFGRPVp6STH1Bt1ZG%3DPx-_5ex4YdGJeO7HSbuPXP57bq3uT8Kg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
