I\'m setting up an Ansible playbook to set up a couple servers. There are a couple of tasks that I only want to run if the current host is my local dev host, named \"local\"
You can limit the scope of a playbook by changing the hosts header in its plays without relying on your special host label ‘local’ in your inventory. Localhost does not need a special line in inventories.
- name: run on all except local
hosts: all:!local
The necessary variable is inventory_hostname.
- name: Install this only for local dev machine
pip: name=pyramid
when: inventory_hostname == "local"
It is somewhat hidden in the documentation at the bottom of this section.
This is an alternative:
- name: Install this only for local dev machine
pip: name=pyramid
delegate_to: localhost