1 master 10 clients - run ansible playbook only on 5

Question

Hi guys. I have a question. I have 1 master and 10 clients in my server. In that 10cluents 5 are mine and 5 are my friends. I want to execute my playbook only in my 5 clients..

Can anyone tell me how this works??

Answer 1

Create a group in the inventory file and mention only your 5 clients and run the playbook with --limit flag. 

[web-server]
h1
h2
h3

[servers]
s1
s2
s3

ansible-playbook --limit 'web-server' playbook.yml