This Role Has Been Deprecated: Please use the version in the oasis_roles.system Ansible Collection

Hostname

Sets the hostname to a specified value, and optionally injects that value and other aliases into the /etc/hosts file

Requirements

Ansible 2.4 or higher

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or equivalent

Valid Red Hat Subscriptions

Role Variables

Currently the following variables are supported:

General

• hostname - The (probably FQDN) hostname to set for the host
• hostname_aliases - An optional array of shortened hostnames to set into the /etc/hosts file.
• hostname_inject_hosts_files - Set to false if you do not wish to inject lines into the hosts files. Defaults to true.
• hostname_become - Set to false if you do not wish to sudo/become a privileged user for the hostname injection (does not affect becoming root to set the hostname). Defaults to true.
• hostname_become_user - Set to the value of user who should inject the lines into the hosts files. Defaults to root.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: hostname-servers
  roles:
    - role: oasis-roles.hostname
      hostname: dev.example.com
      hostname_aliases:
        - dev

License

GPLv3

Author Information

Greg Hellings greg.hellings@gmail.com