Ansible Role: hostname

An Ansible Role that sets hostname and configure /etc/hosts on RHEL/CentOS, Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

Operating system running on bare metal or on a hypervisor virtualization. This role does not work properly on conteinerized systems.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

#hostname_name: myserver

Hostname to be set on target system.

#hostname_remove_127_0_1_1: yes

If set to yes/true, removes entries pointing to 127.0.1.1 on /etc/hosts.

#hostname_hosts:
#  - { ip: 1.2.3.4, alias: 'dev1 dev1.dom.local' }

Add specified entries to /etc/hosts.

Dependencies

No dependencies.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  vars:
    hostname_name: myserver
    hostname_remove_127_0_1_1: yes
    hostname_hosts:
      - { ip: 1.2.3.4, alias: 'dev1 dev1.dom.local' }
  roles:
     - { role: guidugli.hostname }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2020 by Carlos Guidugli.