How to get the host name of the current machine as defined in the Ansible hosts file?

Question

I\'m setting up an Ansible playbook to set up a couple servers. There are a couple of tasks that I only want to run if the current host is my local dev host, named \"local\"

Answer 1

The necessary variable is inventory_hostname.

- name: Install this only for local dev machine
  pip: name=pyramid
  when: inventory_hostname == "local"

It is somewhat hidden in the documentation at the bottom of this section.