Hello, I need to build Ansible inventory files, but somehow got stuck. Typically for a service, there is development, staging and production. Initially, I thought I can create 3 inventory files with those names. Later I feel it may not be the case. As I look at this Ansible document: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html#example-group-by-function, it actually lists (3) grouping methods, by environment, by functions, and by locations. Can I have a inventory file that is both grouped by environment and by functions? It seems not possible. For example, consider the following inventory file named as myservices:
[development] testwebserver1 testwebserver2 testloadbalancer1 [production] webserver1 webserver2 loadbalancer1 [myservices:children] development production If the inventory file is development or production, that means it would include all other services and it will become a big inventory file, and playbook will be hard to write to manage all kinds services, for example, development inventory file: [myservice1] testwebserver1 testwebserver2 [myservice2] testwebserver3 testwebserver4 [load_balancers] loadbalancer1 [development:children] myservice1 myservice2 load_balancers Is it a good practice to break down one big inventory file containing a lot of services into inventory files just for that service like the first one? Thank you, - Xinhuan Zheng -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/1517c5c1-31e0-4eaa-b793-1d7fd3846cd3%40googlegroups.com.
