You can make a group called db_servers_stage and db_servers_production if you like. Put hosts in each.
[stage:children] dbservers_stage webservers_stage [dbservers:children] dbservers_stage dbservers_production etc On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Jordi Funollet <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014, at 04:03 AM, Brian Coca wrote: > > hosts can be in more than one group. all hosts in the production file > > should be in production group, but you can also have hosts in dbservers > > group. > > Agree. So when targeting hosts we can use the inventory as environment and > *--limit* to restrict to a specific group in this environment. > > $ ansible-playbook -i inventory/stage -l dbservers > > But what about vars? Both vars in *group_vars/stage* and > *group_vars/dbservers* would apply for these hosts. But I can't see a way > to set a value for *dbservers* in *stage* and another for *dbservers* in* > production*. Most cases could be addressed without this level of > granularity, but I would like to know if there's some way to achieve this. > > And which one takes precedence? I assume groups are sorted alphabetically > (are they?) so we should use some naming trick to guarantee that > environments vars are consistently selected after (or before) "regular > groups" vars. > > $ python -c 'import string ; print "".join(sorted(string.printable))' > > !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ > > Prepending *~* to environment names sounds like a good way to give them > less weight than "regular groups". > -- > Jordi Funollet Pujol > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jordifunollet > > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/1409214674.1310501.157687269.4E51BB12%40webmail.messagingengine.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/1409214674.1310501.157687269.4E51BB12%40webmail.messagingengine.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgzz%2BB6Wx%2BaZ0TY%2BAo9N%2BRmvgY9SZk3AR%2Boz-oB8b-96LQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
