That was it, "parameterized builds".  Thank you for pointing me in the 
right direction.

On Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 12:35:23 PM UTC-5, Jeff Pearce wrote:
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> I don’t know anything about ansible, so this may be off base, but maybe 
> add a job parameter to control it?
>
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> *Subject: *Best way to adjust Ansible options when running playbooks from 
> Jenkins
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> Hello, 
>
> I'm new Jenkins and my goal is to try and use Jenkins as a GUI frontend to 
> run Ansible playbooks on networking devices.  The playbooks will do things 
> such as backing up configs or performing upgrades and other various 
> operations.  I installed the Ansible plugin and I built a free style 
> project  and successfully used the Ansible plugin to run a playbook (All 
> good as a first test...).  With that said, how can I control the devices I 
> want the playbook to run against without going into "Build configuration" 
> and modifying the "Host subset" field (equivalent of using the --limit 
> option on the Ansible command line).  I'd like to have others in my group 
> be able to run the Ansible playbooks, against networking devices of their 
> choice, without going into the "Build configuration" section of Jenkins.  
> Is there a way to do this?
>
>  
>
> Thanks
>
> Al Silverstein
>
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