Have some way to merge the 'host' INI inventory and group_vars/$service to become a single $service.yml?

[jper...@zenedge.com]

Hi List,

   Today, we are using the approach as suggested by the official documentation (directory layout) http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_best_practices.html

but, if you have a big number of regions/different-pops and huge number of servers. so, It's become a bit confused to be maintained.

So, my goal is to find a way to merge the 'host' inventory that has the usual "[services1]" and 'groups_vars/services1' to become a single 'services.yml', for me it is the best way.

p.s: I tried to use the INI format, but the fact is because do not fit well due to we use big number of variables (strings, arrays) for different regions & pops.

Thanks in advance,

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Jorge Pereira

[Brian Coca]

in 2.4 you can use ansible-inventory to dump a yaml/json
representation of the inventory.





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Brian Coca

[Jorge Pereira]

Brian,

I tried it, but the response is very polluted. I am looking for something more simple.

e.g:

# cat hosts

[web:children]

web-region1

......

[web-region1]

1.2.3.4 var1="[1, 2, 3]" var2="caipirinha"
1.2.3.5 var1="[6, 7, 8]" var2="caipirinha-com-gelo"

......

# cat group_vars/web-region1

var_name1: "1, 2"

var_name2: "3, 4"

.......

So, the expectation should be to create a single

# cat web-region1.yml

web-region1:

  hosts:

    1.2.3.4:

      var1: "[1, 2, 3]"

      var2: "caipirinha"

    1.2.3.5:

       var1: "[6, 7, 8]"

       var2: "caipirinha-com-gelo"

   vars:

     var_name1: "1, 2"

     var_name2: "3, 4"

#

Somebody knows if have some way? Any clue?

[Jorge Pereira]

Hi Guys,

I just created the simple tool here https://github.com/jpereira/ansible-tools/ to do that.