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Add implicit localhost hostvars note (#61956)

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Sloane Hertel 2019-09-16 14:00:29 -04:00 committed by Sandra McCann
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@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ You can override the built-in implicit version by creating a ``localhost`` host
.. note::
- This host is not targetable via any group, however it will use vars from ``host_vars`` and from the 'all' group.
- Implicit localhost does not appear in the ``hostvars`` magic variable unless demanded, such as by ``"{{ hostvars['localhost'] }}"``.
- The ``inventory_file`` and ``inventory_dir`` magic variables are not available for the implicit localhost as they are dependent on **each inventory host**.
- This implicit host also gets triggered by using ``127.0.0.1`` or ``::1`` as they are the IPv4 and IPv6 representations of 'localhost'.
- Even though there are many ways to create it, there will only ever be ONE implicit localhost, using the name first used to create it.