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How to run Ansible without specifying the inventory but the host directly?
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Question:
. How to run Ansible without specifying the inventory but the host directly?
. Run a playbook or command with arbitrary host not in the inventory hosts list?
. run ansible with arbitrary host/ip without inventory?
Answer:
Surprisingly, the trick is to append a ,
The host parameter preceding the , can be either a hostname or an IPv4/v6 address.
ansible all -i example.com,
ansible all -i 93.184.216.119,
ansible-playbook -i example.com, playbook.yml # Requires 'hosts: all' in the playbook
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Aitozi commented Aug 28, 2019

can this ansible all -i ip1,ip2-m shell -a "ifconfig" . be executed on two machine?

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