Understanding group vars

[Shua Talansky]

Based on these docs http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_best_practices.html#group-and-host-variables I would think this should work.

I have a yml file with 

db:

  host: 123.45.6.7

  pass: secret

etc.. I put one in selenium_hub and one in website see below I am getting back the wrong vars - ansible selenium_hub -m debug -a "var=hostvars[inventory_hostname]"

shua@acm1-mgmt-us-east-1 17:26:10 (master) ~/infrastructure/ansible/group_vars

$ tree

.

├── all

│   ├── common.yml

│   ├── sudo.yml

│   └── users.yml

├── dev

│   ├── sudo.yml

│   ├── users.yml

│   └── website

│       ├── vars.yml

│       └── vault.yml

├── prod

│   ├── selenium_hub

│   │   └── vars.yml

│   ├── selenium_node

│   │   └── vars.yml

│   ├── sudo.yml

│   ├── users.yml

│   └── website

│       ├── vars.yml

│       └── vault.yml

└── us-east-1.yml

7 directories, 14 files

```

however when I do 

```

$ ansible selenium_hub -m debug -a "var=hostvars[inventory_hostname]"

```

I get variables that are defined under prod website - what am I doing wrong?

[Johannes Kastl]

On 28.04.16 17:44 Shua Talansky wrote:

> ├── prod
> │ ├── selenium_hub
> │ │ └── vars.yml

> I get variables that are defined under prod website - what am I doing wrong?

I thought host-specific variables are in a directory called host_vars
(or host_vars/foobar for the host foobar), while group-specific
variables go into the directory group_vars.

So I am surprised you mixed these by having a selenium_hub folder in
your prod-group_vars folder. Maybe that's causing the issue?

Johannes