How to run Ansible without specifying the inventory but the host directly?

Question

I want to run Ansible in Python without specifying the inventory file through (ANSIBLE_HOST) but just by:

ansible.run.Runner(   module_name='ping',   host='www.google.com' ) 

I can actually do this in fabric easily but just wonder how to do this in Python. On the other hand, documentation of the Ansible API for python is not really complete.

Answer 1

Surprisingly, the trick is to append a ,

# Host and IP address ansible all -i example.com, ansible all -i 93.184.216.119, 

or

# Requires 'hosts: all' in your playbook ansible-playbook -i example.com, playbook.yml 

The host parameter preceding the , can be either a hostname or an IPv4/v6 address.

Answer 2

I know this question is really old but think that this little trick might helpful for future users who need help for this:

ansible-playbook -i 10.254.3.133, site.yml 

if you run for local host:

ansible-playbook -i localhost, --connection=local site.yml 

The trick is that after ip address/dns name, put the comma inside the quotes and requires 'hosts: all' in your playbook.

Hope this will help.