Group ec2 instances and local machines together

[Alex Braun]

I want to run a playbook with some group_vars on some Amazon EC2 instances and on some local machines.  Is there some way that I can group EC2 instances (by tag) and local machines under the same inventory group?

For instance:

inventory/dev.yml

```

macbookpro ansible_ssh_host=1.2.3.4

[dev]

macbookpro         # some local machine (not necessarily localhost)

tag_branch_dev   # EC2 tag

```

playbooks/setup-dev.yml

```

- hosts: dev

  roles:

    - role: users

      become: true

```

[Alexey Vazhnov]

Yes, just put your static inventory and EC2 dynamic inventory script in one folder.

[Josh Smift]

We wrote a sort of meta-inventory script to do this kind of thing;
https://github.com/caredotcom/ansible-quartermaster might be useful (as
is, as an example, as a warning, etc :^).

(Wanting AWS things things with tag_whatever_foo, and static things in
group 'foo', to both end up in the same Ansible group, was a big motivation.)

-Josh (j...@care.com)

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