Ansible inventory organization

[Sascha Andres]

Hi,

I have servers that are organized into environment (such as staging, production, test, etc.) and into function (www, db, etc)

My idea was to have a group 'production' with a list of servers, and a group www with a list of servers. Just like this:

    production:

      hosts:

        servera

        serverb

    

    test:

      hosts:

        serverc

        serverd

    

    www:

      hosts:

        servera

        serverb

        serverc

        serverd

Not I want something like

    ansible-playbook --limit production,www 

and I want it applied only to servera and serverb. Not sure how to get there. Can anyone give a hint?

Kind regards,

Sascha

[Sascha Andres]

Hi,

maybe to be clearer: I want the intersection of production & www.

Kind regards,

Sascha

[Sudheer S]

I recommend this layout:

environments/production/hosts

environment/staging/hosts

environment/test/hosts

Each hosts file should have list of servers.

all:
  hosts:
    placeholder
  children:
    db:
      hosts:
        dbserver1

    www:

     hosts:

       wwwserver1

You could execute playbook like:
ansible-playbook -i environments/production/ webservers.yml
-
Sudheer S

[Kai Stian Olstad]

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_patterns.html


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Kai Stian Olstad

[S C Rigler]

If you want an intersection, try:

ansible-playbook --limit production:\&www

Or if you just want to run on "servera" and "serverb", you can do it like this:

ansible-playbook --limit ~server[ab]

--Steve

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[Sascha Andres]

Hi,

thanks Steve, this is what I was looking for. I have found intersection in the configs now.

Thanks again,

Sascha