Load ansible.cfg in each playbook dir

[Baptiste Doublet]

Hello,

I'm looking for a solution to load local ansible.cfg at root playbook_dir.

This is my architeture folder of playbooks:

ansible
├── deploy_manager
│   ├── ansible.cfg
│   ├── deploy_manager.yml
│   ├── environments
│   │   ├── demo
│   │   │   ├── group_vars
│   │   │   │   └── demo.yml
│   │   │   ├── inventory.yml
│   │   │   └── vars
│   │   │       └── vault.yml
│   │   ├── int
│   │   │   ├── group_vars
│   │   │   │   └── int.yml
│   │   │   ├── inventory.yml
│   │   │   └── vars
│   │   │       └── vault.yml
│   │   └── prod
│   │       ├── group_vars
│   │       │   └── prod.yml
│   │       ├── inventory.yml
│   │       └── vars
│   │           └── vault.yml
│   ├── README.md
│   └── roles
│       ├── create_instance
│       │   └── tasks

│       │       └── main.yml

When I execute the playbook with ansible-playbook cli, I have an ansible.cfg in current dir so ansible.cfg is loaded.

When I execute the playbook from AWX, the project is in tmp/cev039fj/awx_1900_tw78u5vh/project.

There is no ansible.cfg in /tmp/ cev039fj/awx_1900_tw78u5vh so it's the /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg which is loaded.

I have an ansible.cfg in each playbook directory with different params so how could I setup the ANSIBLE_CONFIG path to playbook dir ansible.cfg when a playbook is launched by AWX ?

I did some tests unsuccessful with ANSIBLE_CONFIG setup.

Have you any ideas ?

Thanks

[Seth Foster]

Hi!

ansible.cfg should be at the root directory of your playbook (in your example, ansible.cfg should be in the directory tmp/cev039fj/awx_1900_tw78u5vh/project)

"In order to use a custom ansible.cfg file, place it at the root of your project. Ansible Tower runs ansible-playbook from the root of the project directory, where it will then find the custom ansible.cfg file. An ansible.cfg anywhere else in the project will be ignored."

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/administration/tipsandtricks.html#locate-and-configure-the-ansible-configuration-file

[Baptiste Doublet]

Thanks for your answer.

That means there is no solution to have an ansible.cfg per playbook directory ?

I have several playbooks directories like deploy_manager in ansible folder with specific ansible.cfg.

I searched for a solution with ANSIBLE_CONFIG maybe set dynamically at job execution. For example, there is AWX_PRIVATE_DATA_DIR which is set to /tmp/cev039fj/awx_1900_tw78u5vh/ in envvars so I tried something like ANSIBLE_CONFIG=$PRIVATE_DATA_DIR but don't know if AWX load it before playbooks execution.

To sum up, I have this folder and need to load specific ansible.cfg if I execute deploy_manager.yml or deploy_manager2.yml

ansible
├── deploy_manager
│   ├── ansible.cfg
│   ├── deploy_manager.yml
│   ├── environments

│   └── roles
│       ├── create_instance
│       │   └── tasks

│       │       └── main.yml

├── deploy_manager_2
│   ├── ansible.cfg
│   ├── deploy_manager_2.yml
│   ├── environments
│   └── roles
│       ├── create_instance_2
│       │   └── tasks

│       │       └── main.yml

Maybe, there is no way ?