stopping different hosts from reading the same value when using ansible in loop

Question

So this is how my plabook looks :

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

    - command: echo {{ item }}

      with_items: [ itemforhost1, itemforhost2]

this is what i get as the output :

TASK [command] *****************************************************************

changed: [host1] => (item=itemforhost1)

changed: [host2] => (item=itemforhost1)

changed: [host1] => (item=itemforhost2)

changed: [host2] => (item=itemforhost2)

ALl of the hosts are reading the same line, I only want my host1 to read itemforhost1 and same for host2. 

How do you think i can go about doing this? I want my output to be something like this:

TASK [command] *****************************************************************

changed: [host1] => (item=itemforhost1)

changed: [host2] => (item=itemforhost2)

Answer 1

Try using this. Create a new directory host_vars in your ansible directory. Create two file host1.yml and host2.yml

host1.yml:

---

echo_value: itemforhost1

host2.yml:

---

echo_value: itemforhost2

and your playbook should look something like this:

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

    - command: echo {{ echo_value }}

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Answer 2

Try this out. Make a new directory host_vars in your ansible directory. create two file host1.yml and host2.yml

host1.yml:

---

echo_value: itemforhost1

host2.yml:

---

echo_value: itemforhost2

and your playbook should look something like this:

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

    - command: echo {{ echo_value }}