Accessing inventory host variable in Ansible playbook

Question

I am using Ansible 2.1. I have the following inventory host file and a role being called by a play that needs access to the host file variable. Any thoughts on how to acce

Answer 1

[host_group]
host-1 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.21 node_name=foo
host-2 ansible_ssh_host=192.168.0.22 node_name=bar

[host_group:vars]
custom_var=asdasdasd

You can access host group vars using:

{{ hostvars['host_group'].custom_var }}

If you need a specific value from specific host, you can use:

{{ hostvars[groups['host_group'][0]].node_name }}