"problem with group_vars/all is that it's 'in the tree' - I'm trying to
find a way to"

You can keep this alongside your inventory (which most people do) rather
than alongside your playbook, if you like.





On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Dick Davies <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah we're about to try some of the cloud providers, I know this is
> going to bite us.
>
> problem with group_vars/all is that it's 'in the tree' - I'm trying to
> find a way to
> have preprod_hosts and production_hosts contain everything
> environment-specific,
> so we can ensure roles/ group_vars/ etc. don't vary across different
> environments.
>
> On 6 June 2014 13:34, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Don't do "all:vars", use a "group_vars/all" file instead.
> >
> > Not only is it cleaner for a static inventory, but it's usable with
> dynamic
> > ones as well.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Dick Davies <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I do the per environment inventories too (partly because they're
> >> datacenter/vagrant)
> >> and had a few groups just to target one-off plays.
> >>
> >> My per-environment settings usually tuck into
> >>
> >> [all:vars]
> >>
> >> in the inventory - I've no idea how I'm going to map that to a dynamic
> >> inventory
> >> yet, probably a lot of set_fact roles to set everything up.
> >>
> >> I keep them in step by diffing :(
> >>
> >> Re: the group composition - I needed that for some one-off plays, it
> >> turns out you can target multiple groups in a play with something like
> >>
> >> .....
> >> - hosts: mysql:redis
> >>   sudo: yes
> >>   tasks:
> >> .....
> >>
> >> On 4 June 2014 02:20, Michael Mahemoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > As I have separate "staging" and "production" inventory files, I end
> up
> >> > duplicating some group compositions (e.g. databases:children is
> >> > mysql:children and redis:children, that kind of thing). I'm wondering
> if
> >> > there's a way to consolidate that logic, such as a directive to
> include
> >> > a
> >> > file. Or maybe some trick I'm missing here.
> >> >
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