How to filter IP address of remote system in Ansible

Question

Hi Guys,

I have configured the Ansible controller node in my system. I want to find out the IP address of all managed nodes. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can use the filter keyword in your ansible-playbook. It will fetch the data of your manages nodes using setup modules. I have attached one example below.

- name: Gather facts from new server
  setup:
    filter: ansible_default_ipv4.address

Comments

Hi@MD,

Thanks, it worked for me as well. Can you explain more about facts in Ansible ?

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Hi,

Facts is a task that Ansible runs by default to every node. This task will gather all the information about those nodes. I suggest you just go through the official document of Ansible facts. You will get all the information with an example. I have attached the link below.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html