Using 2 inventories. Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong?

[Varun Chopra]

So I plan to use a static and a dynamic inventory (gce) and this is what my play folder looks like:

.
├── ansible.cfg
├── credentials.json
├── gce_vars
│   ├── auth
│   └── test_servers
├── group_vars
│   └── all
├── hosts.yml
├── inventory
│   ├── gce.ini
│   ├── gce.py
│   └── hosts.yml
└── provision.yml

3 directories, 10 files

credentials.json is the json private key for my service account.

[root@workstation gcloud]# cat gce_vars/auth
---
service_account_email: "XXXXX-...@developer.gserviceaccount.com"
path_to_credentials: /workspace/gcloud/credentials.json
project_id: "heroic-XXX-XXX"
...

gce.ini

[gce]
libcloud_secrets =
gce_service_account_email_address = XXXXX-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com
gce_service_account_pem_file_path = /workstation/gcloud/credentials.json
gce_project_id = heroic-XXX-XXX

[inventory]
inventory_ip_type = external

[cache]
cache_path = ~/.ansible/tmp
cache_max_age = 300

However, when I try to run the dynamic inventory, I get this error:

[root@workstation inventory]# ./gce.py --list
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gce.py", line 508, in <module>
    GceInventory()
  File "./gce.py", line 170, in __init__
    self.driver = self.get_gce_driver()
  File "./gce.py", line 318, in get_gce_driver
    gce = get_driver(Provider.GCE)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libcloud/compute/drivers/gce.py", line 1795, in __init__
    super(GCENodeDriver, self).__init__(user_id, key, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libcloud/common/base.py", line 975, in __init__
    self.connection = self.connectionCls(*args, **conn_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libcloud/compute/drivers/gce.py", line 99, in __init__
    credential_file=credential_file, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libcloud/common/google.py", line 767, in __init__
    user_id, key, auth_type, credential_file, scopes, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libcloud/common/google.py", line 653, in __init__
    self.user_id, self.key, self.scopes, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libcloud/common/google.py", line 495, in __init__
    "file: '%s'" % key)
ValueError: Missing (or not readable) key file: '/workstation/gcloud/credentials.json'

[Vyacheslav]

>  Missing (or not readable) key file: '/workstation/gcloud/credentials.json'

what says ls -la /workstation/gcloud | grep credentials.json ?

[Varun Chopra]

Thanks. I read your post and realized what I did wrong.

/workspace was my working directory and workstation's my hostname. Mixed up the two. :l