hostname

Set or update the hostname in Debian-like systems.

Requirements

None

Variables

This role depends on your ansible hosts inventory.

Add the hosts to your inventory with their FQDN (e.g. foo.bar.com), and the role will take care of setting your hostname accordingly (hostname: foo, FQDN: foo.bar.com).

If you just name it with the hostname in the inventory, it will similarly work (hostname set, but no FQDN attached to it).

• hostname_hostname: [default: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"]: FQDN

• hostname_hostname_short: [default: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}"]: Hostname

• hostname_hostname_use_full: [default: false]: If set to true hostname equal FQDN

• hostname_hostname_ip_address: [default: 127.0.1.1]: FQDN and shortname resolve to this

• hostname_additional_hosts: [default: []]: Hosts declaration

• hostname_additional_hosts.{n}.ip_address: [required]: IP address

• hostname_additional_hosts.{n}.hostname: [required]: FQDN

• hostname_additional_hosts.{n}.hostname_short: [required]: Hostname

• hostname_use_strategy: [optional]: Which strategy to use to update the hostname (Ansible >= 2.9)

Dependencies

None

Example

Your inventory file should look like this:

foo.bar.com ansible_ssh_host=1.2.3.4
baz.bar.com ansible_ssh_host=5.6.7.8

And the structure of the files in your host_vars folders should match accordingly:

# ls host_vars/ -l
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 foo bar  0 aug 14 11:51 foo.bar.com.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 foo bar 29 aug 14 21:01 baz.bar.com.yml

foo.bar.com.yml could look like this:

hostname_additional_hosts:
  - ip_address: 1.2.3.4
    hostname: a.example.com
  - ip_address: 5.6.7.8
    hostname: b.example.com
    hostname_short: b

This will create the following /etc/hosts file:

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 foo.bar.com foo

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

1.2.3.4 a.example.com
5.6.7.8 b.example.com b

License

MIT

Author Information

Mischa ter Smitten (based on work of ANXS)

Feedback, bug-reports, requests, ...

Are welcome!