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Run a playbook

With a defined group of hosts


if your in the ansible folder with the following directory structure: 

ansible/
├──+ dev/
│  └── hosts.txt
├──+ playbooks/
│  ├──  play1.yml
│  ├──  play2.yml
│  └──  play3.yml
└──+ roles/
   ├──  role1/
   ├──  role2/
   └──  role3/

Then when running a play from within the "ansible" directory, against the host list "hosts.txt" you would use the following command: 
$ ansible-playbook -i dev/hosts.txt playbooks/play1.yml


if the host.txt file was formatted with the following groups: 
[web]
web01.cmed.us
web02.cmed.us

[app]
app01.cmed.us
app02.cmed.us

[db]
db01.cmed.us

and you only wanted to run a play against the "[web]" hosts, you could run the play the following way: 
$ ansible-playbook -i dev/hosts.txt playbooks/play1.yml --limit web


With a single host

You need to include the comma at the end so that ansible thinks you have a list of hosts.  
# ansible-playbook playbooks/condition-hostgroup.yml -i 10.33.128.200,





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