import_playbook needs some kind of Host limit or filter about ansible HOT 5 CLOSED

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Hi!

Thanks very much for your submission to Ansible. It means a lot to us that you've taken time to contribute.

Unfortunately, we're not sure if we want this feature in the program, and I don't want this to seem confrontational.
Our reasons for this are:

• You could use a variable for hosts. There are various ways it can be set, including through set_fact in a previous play, or using vars on the task that imports the playbook.
• For cases where import_playbook doesn't provide the options needed, you can invoke ansible-playbook as a task instead.

However, we're absolutely always up for discussion.
Because this project is very active, we're unlikely to see comments made on closed tickets and we lock them after some time.
If you or anyone else has any further questions, please let us know by using any of the communication methods listed in the page below:

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/communication.html

In the future, sometimes starting a discussion on the development list prior to implementing
a feature can make getting things included a little easier, but it's not always necessary.

Thank you once again for this and your interest in Ansible!

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I have a playbook for deploying all web servers, but normally I don't want to deploy them all at the same time. That's why I always use a limit with -l such as ansible-playbook webserver.yml -l dev so that only the dev servers are deployed.

@RayJin2000 since you mention using --limit, setting hosts to something like "{{ ansible_limit | default(yourdefault) }}" might be a good option. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/special_variables.html#term-ansible_limit

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@s-hertel you mean i can do this:

- import_playbook: databases.yml
  vars:
    ansible_limit: prod

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no, ansilbe_limit is not 'settable' , it always reflects the command line

you can have the databases.yml:

- hosts: ' {{ target| default("all") }}'
...

and then

- import_playbook: databases.yml
  vars:
    target: prod

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