localhost in multiple groups (e.g. all) as well as "ungrouped"

[David Resnick]

I've found a regression in Ansible 2.1.1.0 where group_vars are not being applied correctly to a host that is shown as part of those groups.

My playbook is for performing AWS operations.

My inventory file looks something like this:

[control_host]

localhost connection=local

[nonprod]

[eu-nonprod]

[eu-west-1]

[demo]

[eu-west-1:children]

control_host

[demo:children]

control_host

[nonprod:children]

eu-nonprod

demo

[eu-nonprod:children]

eu-west-1

When I run this with Ansible 2.1.1 my groups_vars are not picked up -- including values set in group_vars/all.yml. With 2.1.0 group_vars are set as expected.

I'm not sure this is connected, but I've noticed that localhost is shown as belonging to all expected groups when running with 2.1.0 -- and with Ansible 2.1.1 localhost is shown to belong to the "ungrouped" group as well.

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************

ok: [localhost] => {

    "groups": {

        "all": [

            "localhost"

        ],

        "control_host": [

            "localhost"

        ],

        "demo": [

            "localhost"

        ],

        "eu-nonprod": [

            "localhost"

        ],

        "eu-west-1": [

            "localhost"

        ],

        "nonprod": [

            "localhost"

        ],

        "ungrouped": [

            "localhost"

        ]

    }

}

Am I missing something here? Should I open an issue about this?

Thanks,

David