“skipping: no hosts matched” issue with Vagrant and Ansible

Question

I have installed Vagrant, VirtualBox and Ansible and trying to run provision over one host but it always returns \"skipping: no hosts matched\"

The head of my playbook f

Answer 1

I tried pointing the groups to default vagrant box and it worked. Refer https://gagor.pl/2015/12/ansible-on-vagrant-skipping-no-hosts-matched/

ansible.groups = {
  'webservers' => ['default']
}

Answer 2

You can run your playbook in verbose mode by adding -vvvv in the end. Ansible uses host file from /etc/ansible/hosts add the below

You can check what inventory file is being used by your ansible by below

ansible --version
ansible 2.0.0.2
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

Then check your host file if it contains the exact group for host

 vim /etc/ansible/hosts
 [webserver1]
 IP of machine

check by running the below command

ansible -m ping 10.0.3.145 (IP Of machine)
10.0.3.145 | SUCCESS => {
"changed": false, 
"ping": "pong"

}

This should fix the issue.

Answer 3

It could help to post your Vagrantfile and your ansible inventory file.

• Are you using the default ansible provider of vagrant?

  did you specify the inventory_path?

 config.vm.provision :ansible do |ansible|
   ansible.playbook = "provisioning/playbook.yml"
   ansible.inventory_path = "provisioning/ansible_hosts"
 end

• Are you launching it the through the a vagrant ssh with --connection=local try a /etc/ansible/hosts

[webserver1]
127.0.0.1              ansible_connection=local

• Are you using the ansibleLocal provider / vagrant plugin?