Ansible Role: hosts
Description
Ansible role that dynamically creates the hosts file.
Installation
ansible-galaxy install arillso.hosts
Requirements
None
Role Variables
hosts_file
Path to the host file on the target system.
hosts_file: /etc/hosts
hosts_backup
Backup the hosts file before changing it.
hosts_backup: false
hosts_group
Group owner of hosts file.
hosts_group: root
hosts_owner
Owner of hosts file.
hosts_owner: root
hosts_mode
Access permission hosts file.
hosts_mode: 0644
SELinux
Settings for SElinux.
hosts_serole: object_r
hosts_setype: net_conf_t
hosts_seuser: system_u
hosts_selevel: s0
Loopback
Creates a 127.0.0.1 entry for the server name.
hosts_hostname_loopback: true
Inventory
Inserts all hosts in the Ansible Inventory file into the Hosts file.
hosts_inventory_to_hosts: false
Optionally, hosts_aliases
can be set in the host_vars
, then it generates aliases for the hosts.
All Private
If this option and the hosts_inventory_to_hosts
is enabled it writes all private ip addresses from the inventory into the hosts
hosts_all_private: true
All Public
If this option and the hosts_inventory_to_hosts
is enabled it writes all public ip addresses from the inventory into the hosts.
hosts_all_public: false
IPv6
Ipv6 localhost entries are set automatically. Setting false it can be prevented.
hosts_ipv6: true
IPv4 address
Address that you would like to use as IPv4 address. This could be overriden by what you want.
hosts_ipv4_address: "{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname]['ansible_default_ipv4']['address'] }}"
hosts_exludes_interfaces
List of network cards that should not be added to the hosts file.
hosts_exludes_interfaces:
- 'vet*'
- 'docker'
Dependencies
None
Example Playbook
- hosts: all
roles:
- arillso.hosts
Author
License
This project is under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.
Copyright
(c) 2020, Arillso