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ansibleansible-2.xansible-inventory

ansible group_vars adjacent to inventory file

On ansible 2.1.1.0

given a structure as so

.
|-- inventories
|   `-- env
|       |-- group_vars
|       |   `-- someconfig
|       `-- hosts.ini
`-- main.yml

group_vars as 

---
myconfig: somevalue

hosts.ini as

localhost

[env]
localhost

main.yml as

---
 - hosts: env
   user: someuser
   tasks:
    - debug: msg="loaded {{ myconfig }}"

On running 

ansible-playbook -i inventories/env/hosts.ini main.yml

Why isn't myconfig loaded ?

From this issue and this link it seems that this is the recommended structure. So why does not the play load the group_vars adjacent from the specified inventory file ?

Solution

  • Configuration files in the group_vars directory must match the group name defined in the inventory file.

    In your case you either have to create a group called someconfig or rename that particular file to a name of one of your groups, for example env.