Ansible: How to get the IP address of another host of previous play in the playbook?

[tebaly]

ISSUE TYPE

• Documentation Report

In docs http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#fact-caching

My inventory hosts like IP list, without hostnames.

[name-first]
192.168.1.2
[name-second]
192.168.1.3

And i can refer to "hostvars" only by IP. But how i refer to higher(previous) "play" to get the IP address?... By _name_ for example

hostvars[groups.<name>.0].ansible_default_ipv4.address

Nothing is easier?

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You preach, write IP only in inventory. But now I have to write IP to get _hostvars_?.. Better yet, if I need to get it.

[sivel]

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