added way to display inventory vars for host to faq + some minor fixes/edits

pull/12612/merge
Brian Coca 9 years ago
parent 323012be2e
commit da458bbfd6

@ -154,7 +154,15 @@ Ansible by default gathers "facts" about the machines under management, and thes
ansible -m setup hostname
This will print out a dictionary of all of the facts that are available for that particular host.
This will print out a dictionary of all of the facts that are available for that particular host. You might want to pipe the output to a pager.
.. _browse_inventory_vars:
How do I see all the inventory vars defined for my host?
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You can see the resulting vars you define in inventory running the following command::
ansible -m debug -a "var=hostvars['hostname']" localhost
.. _host_loops:
@ -208,7 +216,7 @@ Anyway, here's the trick::
{{ hostvars[groups['webservers'][0]]['ansible_eth0']['ipv4']['address'] }}
Notice how we're pulling out the hostname of the first machine of the webservers group. If you are doing this in a template, you
could use the Jinja2 '#set' directive to simplify this, or in a playbook, you could also use set_fact:
could use the Jinja2 '#set' directive to simplify this, or in a playbook, you could also use set_fact::
- set_fact: headnode={{ groups[['webservers'][0]] }}
@ -310,6 +318,7 @@ The no_log attribute can also apply to an entire play::
Though this will make the play somewhat difficult to debug. It's recommended that this
be applied to single tasks only, once a playbook is completed.
I don't see my question here
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