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Using Ad-hoc Inventories in Ansible
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In case you want to run ansible (or ansible-playbook) command against a set of hosts that makes sense only for one run, you can don't bother to create one-time inventory file, but simply define a comma-separated list of hosts as argument of --invertory option (or its short form that's simply -i) as follows:

ansible --inventory=myhost1,myhost2,myhost3 all -m setup -a 'filter=*name*'

(note that all in this command line stands for the target hostname)

If you have only one host to run your playbook against, your inventory string must ends with , (because otherwise Ansible would interpret it as a name of inventory file, not a hosts' list) for example:

ansible-playbook -i myhost, all -a 'uname -a'
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