Force fact-gathering on all hosts

Question

I\'m sitting in front of a fairly complex Ansible project that we\'re using to set up our local development environments (multiple VMs) and there\'s one role that uses the f

Answer 1

You could modify your playbook to:

...
- hosts: "{{ limit_hosts|default('default_group') }}"
  tasks:
    ...
...

And when you run it, if some_var is not defined (normal state) then it will run on the default_group inventory group, BUT if you run it as:

ansible-playbook --extra-vars "limit_hosts=myHost" myplaybook.yml

Then it will only run on your myHost, but you could still have other sections with different hosts: .. declarations, for fact gathering, or anything else actually.