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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, |