On 4/12/20 7:50 PM, Adam McGill wrote:
> Can i specify it on the hosts: line in the playbook is what i am trying to 
> understand and point it to a value in the group.
> 
> hosts: 
> ['groupone']['comname2'] 
> groupone.comname2
> 
> gives me warning , could not match supplied host pattern.
> 
> tried a few things like above, running into a syntax issue it seems or there 
> isn't a way to do it.  Online documentation
> referencing a lot with referencing groups to combine or exclude.  Which isn't 
> what i want,
> as i just want to reference a name/value in a group.  

There are a number of possibilities which comes to my mind:

- create new group for comname2, which can be included into [groupone] through 
[groupone:children]
- create dynamic group in the playbook with add_host task
- use --limit on the command line

Regards
        Racke

> 
> On Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 1:04:42 AM UTC-5, Adam McGill wrote:
> 
> 
>     Is it possible to specify in a playbook hosts value to be a group item 
> from hosts file?
> 
>     *_example:_*
> 
>     Hosts file contains:
> 
>     [groupone]
>     comname1
>     comname2
>     comname3
> 
>     in the playbook would like it to grab the group (groupone) but only apply 
> the playbook routine to a name/value in
>     that group and not all in that group.
> 
>     groupone | comname2
> 
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