Hi all,

I've got a couple of playbooks that depend on other playbooks in order to 
eliminate as much repetition as possible. For example, one playbook is 
responsible for basic server configuration, which is a dependency of other 
playbooks whose goals are to deploy specific apps/services on top of this 
base configuration.

My current strategy looks something like this:

- playbook b depends on playbook a
- playbook b has playbook a as a git submodule in vendor/a
- playbook b's site.yml includes vendor/a/site.yml before playbook b's 
roles are declared, in order to make sure that playbook a runs first

This sort of works, but it feels kind of janky. One of the biggest 
downsides to this is that sub-playbooks don't have their group_vars 
evaluated — only the top-level playbook's group_vars are evaluated. This 
effectively means that anything defined in group_vars in any of the 
sub-playbooks has to be copied up to the top-level playbook's group_vars.

Is there a better way to handle this?

Thanks,
Cody

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