If you added it to a group they should be picked up. If seeing this in Ansible 1.7, please do file a bug.
If you need a workaround, you could: - include_vars: group_vars_path/groupname_here At the top of play that targets groupname, but that should not be needed. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Steven Ringo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Michael and and Matt. > > I have noticed that the group_vars for a group added in add_host are > (seemingly) not picked up. Is this correct behaviour? > > > On 8 Aug 2014, at 7:32 am, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Correct - inventory files are not re-consulted in the middle of a > playbook run. > > > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> add_host is the correct approach. >> >> >> On Wednesday, August 6, 2014, Steven Ringo <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Having a look at the inventory file immediately after the machine is >>> provisioned, it does in fact update correctly. >>> >>> However it appears that the inventory file is run/read only once at the >>> beginning of a playbook, so it will not reflect the new host if the deploy >>> playbook is run by including it after the provisioning playbook. >>> >>> Looks like I will need to use add_host then, or find a way to get >>> Ansible to refresh the inventory in the middle of a play. >>> >>> >>> On 7 Aug 2014, at 12:02 pm, Steven Ringo <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> After provisioning a machine on ec2 module, the inventory doesn't >>> reflect the new host (using ec2.py). >>> >>> I am using a tag_name for the target host that comes from the inventory. >>> >>> I have tried all of the following: >>> >>> - pause of 60 seconds after provisioning. >>> - local_action to refresh the cache, calling ec2.py --refresh-cache >>> - changing the cache_max_age timeout to 0 in ec2.ini >>> >>> The other thing I tried was to use not use the inventory script, but to >>> use add_host with the same group name as my tag name. 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