On 1/30/20 1:48 AM, Eric S wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I am looking for a simple way to have Ansible perform the following 
> automation for me:
> 
>  1. From a set of N hosts, find out which host has the lowest CPU usage at 
> the moment
>  2. Run a command on *only that host*.
> 
> This pattern could be extended to a general case of:
> 
>     Run a command on a subset of hosts matching a condition which is not 
> static.
> 
> 
> This could apply for the following types of use cases:
> 
>   * Find out which hosts are running low on disk space, and only expand disk 
> space on the hosts which are running low
>   * Find out which hosts are lacking a particular upgrade, and only upgrade 
> those hosts
>   * Only run a command on machines which are not currently under heavy load
> 
> This seems like a common and desirable enough pattern, but as far as I can 
> tell there is not a well defined way to
> execute this with Ansible. Is there a simple way to do this with a playbook, 
> or do I need to write a strategy plugin?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric

Hello Eric,

you could try to add the hosts to a new group with the "add_host" module and 
execute the command with delegate_to in
a loop over the hosts in that group.

Regards
         Racke

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