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

I struggled with this, too. My specific setup is: Your host.ini (with the modern names):

[test3]
test3-1 ansible_host=abc.def.ghi.pqr ansible_port=1212
test3-2 ansible_host=abc.def.ghi.stu ansible_port=1212

plus a play fill_file.yml

---
- remote_user: ec2-user
  hosts: test3
  tasks:
   - name: fill file
     template:
       src: file.j2
       dest: filled_file.txt

plus a template file.j2 , like

{% for host in groups['test3'] %}
   {{ hostvars[host].ansible_host }}
{% endfor %}

This worked for me, the result is

abc.def.ghi.pqr
abc.def.ghi.stu

I have to admit it's ansible 2.7, not 2.1. The template is a variation of an example in https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html.

The accepted answer didn't work in my setup. With a template

{{ hostvars['test3'].ansible_host }}

my play fails with "AnsibleUndefinedVariable: \"hostvars['test3']\" is undefined" .

Remark: I tried some variations, but failed, occasionally with "ansible.vars.hostvars.HostVars object has no element "; Some of this might be explained by what they say. in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/13343#issuecomment-160992631

hostvars emulates a dictionary [...]. hostvars is also lazily loaded