Why does Ansible change to looking for the group name in ssh config if you add a group of groups.

[mi...@construct.pm]

Hi there,

I have a simple inventory file and a ssh config entry for each host.

Inventory file:

```

[webservers]

hostname01

[databases]

hostname02

```

ssh config:

```

Host hostname01

  HostName hostname01.domain.com

  IdentityFile hostkey.key

Host hostname02

  HostName hostname02.domain.com

  IdentityFile hostkey.key

```

This all worked file then I added a group of groups to the inventory and not Ansible is searching for webservers not hostname01 in ssh config. For a single host I can easily modify the Host section of ssh config... but when that group webservers has 10 hosts in it what do I do then?

[mi...@construct.pm]

To clarify my inventory file now looks like this:

[webservers]

hostname01

[databases]

hostname02

[production]

webservers

databases

[Michael Peters]

The children of a group in the inventory are assumed to be hostnames,
not other groups. This is why ssh is trying to find that groupname in
the ssh config, because it's supposed to be a host.

If you want to put a group as a child of another group you need to use
this syntax:

[productiont:children]
webservers
databases

See http://docs.ansible.com/intro_inventory.html

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[mi...@construct.pm]

:-) All sorted.

Thanks you.

On Monday, November 3, 2014 4:05:36 PM UTC, ans...@construct.pm wrote: