How to make Ansible use ALL inventory files in a directory?

[ZillaYT]

I'm segregating my development from my production inventories, and somewhat following the advice given in Laying out roles, inventories and playbooks. I therefore have the following directory structure.

/path_to_playbook/inventories
/path_to_playbook/inventories/development/hosts
/path_to_playbook/inventories/development/hosts/host_file_1
/path_to_playbook/inventories/development/hosts/host_file_2
/path_to_playbook/inventories/production/hosts
/path_to_playbook/inventories/production/hosts/host_file_1
/path_to_playbook/inventories/production/hosts/host_file_2

Now how can I write an ansible ad-hoc command to ping all the hosts in the /path_to_playbook/inventories/development/hosts directory? I don't want to create a  /path_to_playbook/inventories/development/hosts/all_hosts file that will contain the hosts in the host_file_* files since that will be hard to maintain

[Brian Coca]

Just pass the directory to -i, ansible will use all the files contained within.





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