My apologies for not being a little more clear, Vlado.
I do want this to execute on the local host and not on the remote hosts.
Ultimately this will be setting up a file that will be used later for
building a remote host's config file using the template module. It's all a
part of an attempt at a somewhat zero touch provisioning model for switches
we deploy.
Essentially the work flow would look similar to:
a new device needs to be added => user builds initial config file specific
to device location and requirements => user runs playbook
The playbook would then locally:
load the device variables from the config file
take user's config file and make a backup to the host_vars directory
for later use, if necessary
take a short hostname (test_string) and MAC address and append them to
the file
Later in the playbook other plays will have tasks that load the variables
in these files generate a config from a template that gets copied to the
remote host. This one file and its contents is, sort of, a living file that
gets updated every time we add or replace a device.
Hope that makes sense.
On Monday, May 4, 2020 at 4:03:15 PM UTC-4, Vladimir Botka wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 May 2020 11:55:19 -0700 (PDT)
> Justin Nelson <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> > ... When I run my playbook I can only seem to get one of my two hosts
> ...
> >
> > - name: Update File
> > hosts:
> > - test_group
> > connection: local
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > [test_group]
> > host1
> > host2
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > What am I missing to make this work for both hosts?
>
> Remove "connection: local". See "local – execute on controller"
>
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/connection/local.html#local-execute-on-controller
>
>
> "... allows ansible to execute tasks on the Ansible ‘controller’ instead
> of
> on a remote host."
>
> HTH,
>
> -vlado
>
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