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

You should be able to use the variable name directly

ansible_ssh_host

Or you can go through hostvars without having to specify the host literally by using the magic variable inventory_hostname

hostvars[inventory_hostname].ansible_ssh_host