Host vars, group vars, Inventory vars?

Matt Hughes

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Oct 3, 2014, 1:49:33 PM10/3/14

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I know you can specify group 'foo' and then declare variables for everything with [foo:vars]. Is there any way to apply variables to *every* host in the inventory? I was thinking:

[*:vars] would work but it does not appear to.

Serge van Ginderachter

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Oct 3, 2014, 1:51:47 PM10/3/14

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That would be via the default 'all' group:

[
all

:vars] would work but it does not appear to.

though I would recommend you to not put variables in the ini file, and use the host/group_vars construct.

Jesse Szwedko

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Oct 3, 2014, 3:19:02 PM10/3/14

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Agreed, I'd use `group_vars/all`.

Matt Hughes

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Oct 3, 2014, 4:10:15 PM10/3/14

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Thanks.

[all:vars] works great.

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