Ansible 2 group_vars order

[antony.p...@polyconseil.fr]

Hello,

I do many tests and I don't understand the group_vars load order in ansible 2. With ansible 1 vars are load in my playbook order. But with ansible 2 it seems to be totally random.

For example:

I have 2 groups:

group_vars# tree
├── all.yml
├── site_plo.yml

           toto: foo
└── machine_ehp.yml

           toto: bar

I place my machine in thats groups with this playbook :

- name: Dynamically define site
  group_by: "key=site_{{ inventory_hostname_short[0:3] }}"

- name: Dynamically define environment
  group_by: "key=machine_{{ inventory_hostname_short[3:6] }}"

- debug: var=toto

In this configuration toto=foo

When I rename machine_eh1 there is no logic :
amachine_eh1:  toto=bar
bmachine_eh1:  toto=bar
cmachine_eh1:  toto=bar
dmachine_eh1:  toto=foo
emachine_eh1:  toto=bar
zmachine_eh1:  toto=foo

There is a bug ? a specific order rule ? a random rule ?

Thanks for your help

[Johannes Kastl]

On 18.05.16 16:12 antony.p...@polyconseil.fr wrote:

> There is a bug ? a specific order rule ? a random rule ?

Does this help?
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#variable-precedence-where-should-i-put-a-variable

Johannes

[antony.p...@polyconseil.fr]

My question is about this part of doc:

If multiple groups have the same variable, the last one loaded wins

What is the load order ? It seems to not be alphabetical.