ansible 1.8 (devel 4c86bd3ca6) not reading group_vars?

[Bob Tanner]

Following the documentation at http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html.

I setup an inventory file and group windows.

I setup a group_vars for for windows.

$ cat customer/windows-testing

[windows]

appserv.int.domain.com

$ cat group_vars/windows.yml

ansible_ssh_user: Administrator

ansible_ssh_pass: "Password"

ansible_ssh_port: 5986

ansible_connection: winrm

$ whoami

basictheprogram

$ ansible windows -i customers/windows-testing -m win_ping -vvvv

<appserv.int.domain.com> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: basictheprogram on PORT 22 TO appserv.int.domain.com

appserv.int.domain.com | FAILED => FAILED: Authentication failed.

I don't understand why ansible is attempting to ssh (port 22) as basictheprogram (me) installed of winrm to port 5986 as Administrator.

$ ansible --version

ansible 1.8 (devel 4c86bd3ca6) last updated 2014/10/21 12:09:14 (GMT -500)

  lib/ansible/modules/core: (detached HEAD cb69744bce) last updated 2014/10/07 14:28:03 (GMT -500)

  lib/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 8a4f07eecd) last updated 2014/10/07 14:28:06 (GMT -500)

  v2/ansible/modules/core: (detached HEAD cb69744bce) last updated 2014/10/07 14:28:11 (GMT -500)

  v2/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 8a4f07eecd) last updated 2014/10/07 14:28:15 (GMT -500)

  configured module search path = None

[Michael Wozniak]

I think your group_vars files should not have .yml extensions

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[Serge van Ginderachter]

​Given those paths:​

$  customer/windows-testing

$  group_vars/windows.yml

​Your group vars (current dir) are one level above your inventory​

 

​(within customer dir)

So they are not found..
​

[Serge van Ginderachter]

On 22 October 2014 22:51, Michael Wozniak <mwoz...@itbit.com> wrote:

I think your group_vars files should not have .yml extensions

​That is not a problem, could even be .yaml or .json​

lib/ansible/constants.py:# check all of these extensions when looking for yaml files for things like
lib/ansible/constants.py:YAML_FILENAME_EXTENSIONS = [ "", ".yml", ".yaml", ".json" ]

[Michael Wozniak]

ah, ok.  Thanks.

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[Joseph Tam]

I just experienced the same issue. ansible doesn't seem to read group_vars, but ansible-playbook does.  so my group_vars values are not used.

was this ever solved? 

thanks

[Brian Coca]

i would find that really strange as they both call the same inventory
code that is responsible for reading them.


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[Matt Martz]

I guess one difference could be location?  group_vars can also live at the same level as the playbook, as opposed to alongside the inventory.

Without a playbook, I don't think playbook level group_vars would be loaded.

Just a thought.

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[J Hawkesworth]

Looking at some of my group_vars files, they have the yaml header i.e. they start with 

---

but the example given above doesn't - could that be the difference?

Jon

[J Hawkesworth]

Reading that again, it might not be too clear what I mean.

so instead of 

$ cat group_vars/windows.yml

ansible_ssh_user: Administrator

ansible_ssh_pass: "Password"

ansible_ssh_port: 5986

ansible_connection: winrm

$ cat group_vars/windows.yml

---

ansible_ssh_user: Administrator

ansible_ssh_pass: "Password"

ansible_ssh_port: 5986

ansible_connection: winrm

Hope that helps,

Jon

[Brian Coca]

It is optional, the header --- and footer .... are needed when you
want to have more than one yaml document per file.


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