Re: [ansible-project] group_vars dir structure question (2.4.2.0)

[Matt Martz]

group_vars and host_vars can reside in 2 locations.

1) Relative to the current executing playbook file

2) Relative to the inventory file

Note that I explicitly mention "file", as that is what ansible uses when looking relative for these directories.

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 9:58 AM, James <jame...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to understand how the inventory structure works with group_vars. I currently have:

├── inventory/
│   ├── cisco/
│   │   ├── 2621XM/
│   │   │   └── 12.4/
│   │   │       └── cg/
│   │   │           └── 1
│   │   └── WS-C3550/
│   │       └── 12.2/
│   │           └── cg/
│   │               └── 1
│   └── group_vars/
│       ├── 2621XM
│       ├── all
│       ├── cisco
│       └── WS-C3550

Where the default inventory path in Ansible.cfg is set to /etc/ansible/inventory.

While the above dir structure works, it's not what I am after. I want to be able to set group (cg) specific vars to hosts specified in the INI (1) but still run the playbook from my default inventory path - because I want to run one playbook on all of the hosts but have different login creds for each cg file (eg: 1).

Is this possible, or do I have to do something like this:

├── inventory/
│   ├── cisco/
│   │   ├── 2621XM/
│   │   │   └── 12.4/
│   │   │       └── cg/
│   │   │           └── 1
│   │   │           └── group_vars
│   │   │             └── all

Then run ansible-playbook play.yml -i /etc/ansible/inventory/cisco/2621XM/12.4/cg

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

James





 

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