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# Aliasing An Ansible Host
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When specifying the hosts that Ansible can interact with in the
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`/etc/ansible/hosts` file, you can put just the IP address of the host
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server, like so:
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```yml
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192.168.1.50
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```
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IP addresses are not particularly meaningful for a person to look at though.
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Giving it a name serves as better documentation and makes it easier to see
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what host servers are in play during a task.
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Ansible makes it easy to alias host servers. For example, we can name our
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host `staging` like so:
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```yml
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staging ansible_host=192.168.1.50
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```
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[source](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/inventory_guide/intro_inventory.html#inventory-aliases)
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