Thank you! That is the solution.
On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 1:27:40 PM UTC-8, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> On 17.01.2019 21:25, Robert F wrote:
> > I have this Ansible inventory file:
> >
> > [fileservers]
> > fs01.example.com ansible_ssh_host=192.168.1.1
> > ip_addr=192.168.1.1
> >
> > [dbservers]
> > db01.example.com ansible_ssh_host=192.168.1.2
> > ip_addr=192.168.1.2
> >
> > [webservers]
> > web01.example.com ansible_ssh_host=192.168.1.3
> > ip_addr=192.168.1.3
> >
> > [cmsservers]
> > cms01.example.com ansible_ssh_host=192.168.1.4
> > ip_addr=192.168.1.4
> >
> > What I want to do is be able to set some facts that contain the host
> > aliases when I run this playbook on my web01.example.com server:
> >
> > - name: create alias facts
> > set_fact:
> > file_server_alias: hostvars[{{ inventory_hostname
> > }}]['groups']['fileservers'][0] # should get string 'fs01.example.com'
>
> The syntax is not correct, correct syntax should be
> file_server_alias: "{{
> hostvars[inventory_hostname]['groups']['fileservers'][0] }}"
>
> But there is not point in using hostvars in this example since you can
> just use groups(one of the magic variables in Ansible)
> file_server_alias: "{{ groups['fileservers'][0] }}"
>
> --
> Kai Stian Olstad
>
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