Let me simplify my issue. My inventory json includes the snippet above for
a specific host. I'm looking for any vmware tags present. Ad-hoc debug
gives this:
$ ansible prtmpftp -m debug -a "var=tags"
prtmpftp | SUCCESS => {
"tags": {
"Veeam_Backup": [
"Linux_Production_Servers"
]
}
}
$ ansible prtmpftp -m debug -a "var=hostvars[inventory_hostname]['tags']"
prtmpftp | SUCCESS => {
"hostvars[inventory_hostname]['tags']": {
"Veeam_Backup": [
"Linux_Production_Servers"
]
}
}
$ ansible prtmpftp -m debug -a
"var=hostvars[inventory_hostname]['tags']['Veeam_Backup']"
prtmpftp | SUCCESS => {
"hostvars[inventory_hostname]['tags']['Veeam_Backup']": [
"Linux_Production_Servers"
]
}
However, in a playbook I can't reference the tags in hostvars for this host:
--
- hosts: all
tasks:
- name: show tags
debug:
var: hostvars[inventory_hostname]['tags']
$ ansible-playbook -i prtmpftp, hostvarstest.yml
PLAY [all]
***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts]
***************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [prtmpftp]
TASK [show tags]
*********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [prtmpftp] => {
"hostvars[inventory_hostname]['tags']": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!"
}
In fact, if I dump all of hostvars via the playbook the 'tags' are not even
there as if it isn't getting any vars from the inventory for this host.
Am I misunderstanding how inventory variables and hostvars works in a
playbook vs ad-hoc? The documentation is not very helpful in this area.
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