stopping different hosts from reading the same value when usign ansible in loop

Question

I've got this playbook:

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - command: echo {{ item }}
      with_items: [ itemforhost1, itemforhost2]

And this is the output:

TASK [command] *****************************************************************
changed: [host1] => (item=itemforhost1)
changed: [host2] => (item=itemforhost1)
changed: [host1] => (item=itemforhost2)
changed: [host2] => (item=itemforhost2)

Each host is reading the same line, but I want host1 to only read itemforhost1 and same for host2. How should I go about doing this? I want something like this:

TASK [command] *****************************************************************
changed: [host1] => (item=itemforhost1)
changed: [host2] => (item=itemforhost2)

Answer 1

Try using this. Create a new directory host_vars in your ansible directory. create two file host1.yml and host2.yml

host1.yml:

---
echo_value: itemforhost1

host2.yml:

---
echo_value: itemforhost2

and your playbook should look something like this:

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - command: echo {{ echo_value }}