Manage Inventory in Ansible

[satheesh kumar]

Hi,

Currently i'm using static inventory in ansible and have folder structure like Inventories/inv1, Inventories/inv2, etc..

# Inventories/inv1
[atlanta]
xyz.com

[europe]
abc.com

I need to have group variables for production in a way like Inventories/group_vars/production which is specific to Prod.

#Inventories/group_vars/production
---

url: 'jnp://mqendpoint.company.com:1099'
env: 'Production'


How can I glue these two files into a third inventory file Inventories/production.

What I tried is
#Inventories/production
[production:children]
atlanta
europe

I am getting error as  child group is not defined:atlanta, europe

Any ideas?

[Serge van Ginderachter]

# Inventories/inv1
[atlanta]
xyz.com

[europe]
abc.com

I need to have group variables for production in a way like Inventories/group_vars/production which is specific to Prod.

#Inventories/group_vars/production
---

url: 'jnp://mqendpoint.company.com:1099'
env: 'Production'


How can I glue these two files into a third inventory file Inventories/production.

What I tried is
#Inventories/production
[production:children]
atlanta
europe

I am getting error as  child group is not defined:atlanta, europe

​Because eacht ini file is parsed as if it was a unique inventory.

Just add
---
[atlanta]​

 

​[europe]​

in #Inventories/production

and you'l be good

Any ideas?

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[satheesh kumar]

I added the same

---
[atlanta]​ 

​[europe]​

in #Inventories/production

and when i run playbook # ansible-playbook -i Inventories/production, it doesn't picks the inventory details.

Currently my inventory is

|----Inventories
|         |-----group_vars
|         |           |---production
|         |-----Inventory1
|         |-----Production
|----Playbooks
|         |-----test.yml
|-----roles
|         |-----copy_template
|                     |-----tasks/main.yml
                      |-----templates/copy.js.j2

#Inventories/group_vars/production
---

url: 'jnp://mqendpoint.company.com:1099'
env: 'Production'

#Inventories/inventory1
[smtp]

server1 ansible_ssh_host=server1.cloudapp.net  ansible_ssh_port=22
server2 ansible_ssh_host=server1.cloudapp.net  ansible_ssh_port=23

[smtp:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=testuser
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/home/testuser/smtp-key.pem


#Inventories/production
---
[smtp]



#Playbooks/test.yml
---
- hosts: "{{ hosts }}"
  remote_user: testuser
  sudo: yes
  roles:
      - copy_template

#roles/copy_template/tasks/main.yml
---

- name: Upload config file
  template: src=copy.js.j2  dest=/home/testuser/test.js owner=root mode=0664
  sudo: true


#roles/copy_template/templates/copy.js.j2
// Configuration parameters
var environment = '{{env}}';
var url = '{{url}}';


I run the playbook using # ansible-playbook -i Inventories/production Playbooks/test.yml --extra-vars "hosts=smtp"

But no hosts matched in my case. Can you please help

[Serge van Ginderachter]

On 19 August 2015 at 18:58, satheesh kumar <infosath...@gmail.com> wrote:

I run the playbook using # ansible-playbook -i Inventories/production Playbooks/test.yml --extra-vars "hosts=smtp"

​Now you are pointing your inventory to the production file which only holds an empty group 'smtp'​.

[satheesh kumar]

Can you help me how to refer the group inside Inventories/Inventory1 ?

[Serge van Ginderachter]

On 19 August 2015 at 19:43, satheesh kumar <infosath...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can you help me how to refer the group inside Inventories/Inventory1 ?

​        ​

-

​i Inventories

don't do -i Inventories/production - at least not how your example is laid out.​