Subdirectories in host_vars

[Peter Kokot]

Hello,

does host_vars directory support subdirectories? So multiple variables can be organized in multiple YAML files inside the host subdirectory. For example:

├─ host_vars/
├─── hostname_1.tld/

├───── secrets.yaml

├───── variables.yaml

├─── hostname_2.tld/
├───── secrets.yaml

├───── other_variables.yaml

└─ ...

Thank you for possible answers and helping out.

[Dick Visser]

Yes.

> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/be400fbe-9f32-4722-96fa-65735f9b6210%40googlegroups.com.



--
Dick Visser
Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager
GÉANT

[Peter Kokot]

Thank you so much for your answer.

Yes, it works correctly as expected. Issue was that I was overriding the variables from the roles incorrectly (roles/something/vars/main.yaml) and should use the roles/something/defaults/main.yaml for that. The host_vars work as expected.

On Thursday, 12 September 2019 00:27:45 UTC+2, Dick Visser wrote:

Yes.

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 00:11, Peter Kokot <peter...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> does host_vars directory support subdirectories? So multiple variables can be organized in multiple YAML files inside the host subdirectory. For example:
>
> ├─ host_vars/
> ├─── hostname_1.tld/
> ├───── secrets.yaml
> ├───── variables.yaml
> ├─── hostname_2.tld/
> ├───── secrets.yaml
> ├───── other_variables.yaml
> └─ ...
>
> Thank you for possible answers and helping out.
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group.

> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible...@googlegroups.com.

[Dick Visser]

Yup.
I tend to use rolename/vars for things that are rather static.
For instance, a dict of software versions and their checksums, which
will never change.

> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6d83c372-035f-42c0-8ab3-794dbb23553d%40googlegroups.com.