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Adds a clarification about `inventory_dir/file` magic variables when using implicit localhost as per #45385 . +label: docsite_pr
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tterranigma 2018-09-11 22:17:50 +02:00 committed by Alicia Cozine
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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.
- 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.
- Having ``connection: local`` does NOT trigger an implicit localhost, you are just changing the connection for the ``inventory_hostname``.