Can I define my inventory in my playbook directory?

[skinnedknuckles]

Management Node:

• CentOs 6
  
• Ansible 2.1
  

Remote Node:

• Windows 7
  
• Powershell 3.0
  

My playbooks are all saved in /home/username/playbooks.

My inventory file is saved as /etc/ansible/hosts.

And I also use the file etc/ansible/group_vars/windows.yml

I find it a hassle to go back and forth between these 2 locations.  Why can't I define my inventory and group vars in my playbooks directory?  What is the best way to do that?

[Brian Coca]

inventory can be anywhere you want, it just defaults to /etc/ansible/hosts, you can set in ansible.cfg or on the command line with -i switch. group/host_vars just need to be in the same directory your inventory files are.

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Brian Coca

[skinnedknuckles]

I must be missing something.  I created a ansible.cfg file with this...

[default]

hostfile = /fs01/home/janderson/hosts 

and one with this...

[default]

inventory = /fs01/home/janderson/hosts 

and neither one worked. 

Where can I get a default or sample ansible.cfg file to modify?

[Dick Davies]

We lay ours out in the playbook directory like this

site.yml
prod/
- group_vars/
- all
- hosts
staging/
- group_vars/
- all
- hosts

and then run with

ansible-playbook -i $environment site.yml


On 24 August 2016 at 16:02, skinnedknuckles

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[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 31. aug. 2016 19:13, skinnedknuckles wrote:
> I must be missing something. I created a ansible.cfg file with this...
>
> [default]
> hostfile = /fs01/home/janderson/hosts
>
> and one with this...
>
> [default]
> inventory = /fs01/home/janderson/hosts

This last one is almost correct, but you are missing an s it's [defaults]

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Kai Stian Olstad

[skinnedknuckles]

Thanks Kai for pointing out my mistake!!

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 10:02:37 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: