Ansible 2.4 hostfile warning

Question

In Ansible 2.4, I'm getting this deprecation warning:

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: [defaults]hostfile option, The key is misleading as it can also be a list of hosts, a directory or a list of
paths . This feature will be removed in version 2.8. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in
ansible.cfg.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out what this means. Anybody know?

Answer 1

In my ansible.cfg file, I had a line like

hostfile = ./inventory

That needs to be changed to

inventory = ./inventory