ansible-playbook does permit you to specify inventory on the command line

[larsks]

In https://github.com/k4ml/importerror/blob/master/posts/ansible-playbook-specify-hosts-on-the-command-line.md, you say:

While we can specify what hosts to run the command through ansible command-line program, it's does not apply to ansible-playbook program. We always need to specify the hosts: attribute in our YAML playbook.

That is not in fact true. Consider this playbook, which simply runs the ping module:

- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - ping:

If we have this in playbook.yml we can run it on localhost like this:

ansible-playbook -i localhost, playbook.yml

Or on hosta.example.com like this:

ansible-playbook -i hosta.example.com, playbook.yml

That is in fact pretty much the same syntax as the ansible ad-hoc command.

[k4ml]

Hi, thanks for taking time to look into this. Probably I can't find the trick while searching for this issue. I'll update the post.