Group vars load time

[fdevi...@synthesio.com]

Hello,

I face a strange behaviour on Ansible 2.2.2, which I didn't have on 1.9. Inventory group vars seems to be defined after all the vars in my playbook

My inventory:

inventory/

  production/

    production

    group_vars/

      all.yml

My playbook:

- hosts: all

  vars_files:

    - vars/{{stage}}/frontend/main.yml

    - vars/{{stage}}/frontend/{{front_name}}.yml

    - vars/{{stage}}/frontend/{{group_names[0]}}.yml

stage is defined in inventory/production/group_vars/all.yml

When I run my playbook, it fails loading my var_files because stage does not exist.

if I replace my playbook with the following, it works:

- hosts: all

  vars_files:

    - "{{ inventory_dir }}/group_vars/all.yml"

    - vars/{{stage}}/frontend/main.yml

    - vars/{{stage}}/frontend/{{front_name}}.yml

    - vars/{{stage}}/frontend/{{group_names[0]}}.yml

Best regards,

Fred