Can ansible variables be used to declare hosts in a playbook?

Question

I have a playbook in the format below:

---
- hosts: myIP
  tasks:
  - name: Install a yum package in Ansible example
    yum:
      name: ThePackageIWantToInstall
      state: present

where myIP and ThePackageIWantToInstall are variables.

When the job template runs, I would like the user in the extra variables popup to be able to go with:

myIP = 192.168.1.1
ThePackageIWantToInstall = nano

As the documentation doesn't provide an example of supplying a variable via a job template, is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes.

- name: Do The Thing
  hosts: "{{ foo }}"
  roles:
   - "{{ role }}"

Need mustaches and quotes.

---

to run from popup

(I don't use this, but it was suggested as an edit, thanks...)

foo: value