add_host - add a host (and alternatively a group) to the ansible-playbook in-memory inventory

• Synopsis
• Options
• Examples
• Notes
  • Status
  • Maintenance Info

Synopsis

• Use variables to create new hosts and groups in inventory for use in later plays of the same playbook. Takes variables so you can define the new hosts more fully.
• This module is also supported for Windows targets.

Options

Examples

# add host to group 'just_created' with variable foo=42
- add_host:
    name: "{{ ip_from_ec2 }}"
    groups: just_created
    foo: 42

# add a host with a non-standard port local to your machines
- add_host:
    name: "{{ new_ip }}:{{ new_port }}"

# add a host alias that we reach through a tunnel (Ansible <= 1.9)
- add_host:
    hostname: "{{ new_ip }}"
    ansible_ssh_host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    ansible_ssh_port: "{{ new_port }}"

# add a host alias that we reach through a tunnel (Ansible >= 2.0)
- add_host:
    hostname: "{{ new_ip }}"
    ansible_host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    ansible_port: "{{ new_port }}"

- name: Ensure inventory vars are set to the same value as the inventory_hostname has (close to pre 2.4 behaviour)
  add_host:
    hostname: charlie
    inventory_dir: "{{inventory_dir}}"

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Maintenance Info

For more information about Red Hat’s this support of this module, please refer to this knowledge base article<https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-top-support-policies>

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