According to
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_variables.html#defining-variables-at-runtime
you can use the JSON notation to pass in a list.
So you extra vars param should look like:
--extra-vars '{"server_ip": ["10.100.1.1", "10.2.1.3", "9.3.1.2a"]}'
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 10:09, Veera <sveem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am missing the format of input the extra-vars with multiple choices .
> In the playbook , I am passing 2 variables as extra vars and they are
> working fine .
>
> ansible-playbook myplaybook.yml -e "server_ip=10.100.100.100
> host_names=myserver1_10.100.100.100"
>
> and able to execute my playbook successfully. However when I have
> multiple IP's to feed in like below
>
> ansible-playbook myplaybook.yml -e "server_ip='10.100.100.100',
> '10.100.100.101' ....'10.100.100.10N'
> host_names='myserver1_10.100.100.100', 'myserver2_10.100.100.102',
> .....'myserver10N_10.100.100.10N' "
>
> The playbook uses a temporary inventory and looking to input the same
> with hostnames as myserver_IP one after the other .
> ansible.builtin.add_host:
> hostname: '{{ host_names }}'
> groups: my_group
> ansible_ssh_private_key_file: "{{ mykeypath }}"
> ansible_ssh_user: "root"
> ansible_ssh_extra_args: '-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'
>
> Two extra vars as lists to be passed and the items in extra_vars lists
> are to be processed 1+1 at a time . (ie .. the IP 10.100.100.105 must be
> processed along with host_names=myserver105_10.100.100.105"
>
>
>
>
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