I have a complex Ansible setup with several hosts in my group file. Something like this.
# hosts/groups
[local]
127.0.0.1
[server1]
server1.domain.com
[server2]
server2.domain.com
[group1]
local
server1
[group2]
local
server2
This way, I can run both groups against localhost:2222 which is my Vagrant box, however, they will be both executed. For testing I would very much prefer to choose, which setting, I would like to test. I have experimented with --extra-vars arguments and conditionals, which is pretty ugly. Is there a way to use the extra_vars argument with the host configuration. Using a command like ...
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts -l 127.0.0.1:2222 --extra-vars "vhost=server1.domain.com"
Or am I entirely wrong.
I don't think there's an easy way to do this via alterations to how you executes Ansible.
The best option I can think of involves potentially re-organizing your playbooks. If you create group1.yaml and group2.yaml, each containing the statements necessary for setting up group1 and group2, respectively, then you can run something like
[$]> ansible-playbook -l 127.0.0.1:2222 group1.yaml
to only run the group1 configuration against your development instance.
If you still want a convenient way to run all tasks, alter your playbook.yaml to include the other playbooks:
- include: group1.yaml
- include: group2.yaml