{"id":1075,"date":"2024-02-23T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:53:27","slug":"ansible-variables-adding-variables-in-host-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Ansible \u2013 Variables \u2013 Adding variables in host inventory file"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the below example variables are defined in the host inventory file.<\/p>\n

[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/strong> cat inventory<\/p>\n

=== === ===<\/p>\n

192.168.132.129
\n192.168.132.130
\nservera.example.com<\/p>\n

[webservers]
\nservera.example.com
\nserverb.example.com<\/p>\n

[dbservers]
\nserverc.example.com
\nserverb.example.com
\nservera.example.com<\/p>\n

[myGroups:children]
\nwebservers
\ndbservers<\/p>\n

[testGRP]
\n192.168.132.130
\n[testGRP:vars]<\/em>
\ntheUser = shiju100<\/em><\/p>\n

=== === ===<\/p>\n

[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/strong> cat shijuplaybook.yml
\n== ===== ===
\n– – –
\n– name: shiju sample playbook
\nhosts: testGRP
\ntasks:
\n– name: Add a user shiju100
\nansible.builtin.user:
\nname: “{{ theUser }}”
\nstate: present
\n== ===== ===<\/p>\n

[root@centos9vm ~]# <\/strong>ansible-navigator run -m stdout shijuplaybook.yml –syntax-check
\nplaybook: \/root\/shijuplaybook.yml<\/p>\n

[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/strong> ansible-navigator run -m stdout shijuplaybook.yml<\/p>\n

PLAY [shiju sample playbook] ***************************************************<\/p>\n

TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
\nok: [192.168.132.130]<\/p>\n

TASK [Add a user shiju100] *****************************************************
\nchanged: [192.168.132.130]<\/p>\n

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
\n192.168.132.130 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
\n[root@centos9vm ~]#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the below example variables are defined in the host inventory file. [root@centos9vm ~]# cat inventory === === === 192.168.132.129 192.168.132.130 servera.example.com [webservers] servera.example.com serverb.example.com […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ansible","category-devops","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shijuvarghese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}