Question with group_vars

[Samnang Sen]

In my local.yml I'm able to run the playbook and reference variables within group_vars/all however I'm not able to access variables within group_vars/phl-stage. Let's assume the following.

ansible-playbook -i phl-stage site.yml

I have a variable, let's call it "deploy_path" that's different for each environment. I place the variable within group_vars/<environment name>. If I include the file (group_vars/phl-stage) within "vars_files" it works but I would've thought the group file would be automatically loaded?

# cat local.yml

---

# file: local.yml

- hosts: 127.0.0.1

  connection: local

  vars_files:

    - "group_vars/perlservers"

    - "group_vars/deploy_list"

# cat phl-stage

---

[webservers]

phl-web1

phl-web2

[perlservers]

phl-perl1

phl-perl2

[phl-stage:children]

webservers

perlservers

Directory structure:

group_vars

    all

    phl-stage

    phl-prod

site.yml

local.yml

[Michael DeHaan]

You never need to include group_vars/<groupname> variables in vars_files -- these are loaded automatically.   Ditto for host_vars/<hostname>.

The paths looked at those alongside your playbook or inventory.

If you want to put them somewhere else, you can be explicit, but I would not call them "group_vars" as that means something in ansible and might confuse anyone reading it why you had the duplication.

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