Merging of host_vars and group_vars?

[ry...@openmrs.org]

I have a playbook with a role that creates users that are defined in group_vars/all, similar to this role https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/51.  When I define a user in the host_vars/foo it takes over precedence and does not add the users I have in group_vars/all.  I have set hash_behaviour = merge in my ansible.cfg.  Is this expected behavior? My use case is I have my sysadmin users defined in group_vars/all that should be present on all hosts and I want to give access to a dev on the foo host only. Is there a better way to approach this?

group_vars/all

users:
 - username: sysadmin
   name: sysadmin
   groups: ['sysadmin']
   uid: 1001
   ssh_key:
     - "ssh-rsa AAAA.....ZZZZ"

host_vars/foo

users:
 - username: dev
   name: dev
   groups: ['dev']
   uid: 2001
   ssh_key:
     - "ssh-rsa AAAA.....ZZZZ"

Thanks.

[Michael DeHaan]

hash_merge would only merge hashes, not lists.

So if you instead had users keyed such that they were in the hash based on the username, that would work.

users:

    dev:

       name: dev

       groups: ['dev']

       uid: 2001

etc

The extra "name" may also be redundant, but this should get you on the right track.

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