host_list – Parses a ‘host list’ string

• Synopsis
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• Parses a host list string as a comma separated values of hosts
• This plugin only applies to inventory strings that are not paths and contain a comma.

Examples

# define 2 hosts in command line
# ansible -i '10.10.2.6, 10.10.2.4' -m ping all

# DNS resolvable names
# ansible -i 'host1.example.com, host2' -m user -a 'name=me state=absent' all

# just use localhost
# ansible-playbook -i 'localhost,' play.yml -c local

Status

• This inventory is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This inventory is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

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