Note that you must have passphrase-less SSH keys or an ssh-agent configured for this to work, otherwise rsync
will need to ask for a passphrase.
.._delegate_facts:
Delegated facts
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..versionadded:: 2.0
Before 2.0 any facts gathered by a delegated task were assigned to the `inventory_hostname` (current host) instead of the host which actually produced the facts (delegated to host).
The new directive `delegate_facts` if set to `True` will assing the task's gathered facts to the delegated host instead of the current one.::
- hosts: app_servers
tasks:
- name: gather facts from db servers
setup:
delegate_to: "{{item}}"
delegate_facts: True
with_items: "{{groups['dbservers'}}"
The above will gather facts for the machines in the dbservers group and assign the facts to those machines and not to app_servers,
that way you can lookup `hostvars['dbhost1']['default_ipv4_addresses'][0]` even though dbservers were not part of the play, or left out by using `--limit`.