Hi Trevor, can you share your dynamic inventory script with us ? it looks like the only way to have site-wide defaults.
Thanks Patrick On Monday, December 22, 2014 at 7:18:27 PM UTC+1, Trevor Hartman wrote: > > Thanks for posting Azul. It's interesting to see another way of handling > it. I ended up with this structure, which I'm liking a lot: > > env > ├── defaults > ├── dev > │ ├── group_vars > │ │ ├── backend > │ │ ├── defaults > │ │ ├── ingest > │ │ ├── monitoring > │ │ └── zookeeper > │ └── inventory.py > └── production > ├── group_vars > │ ├── backend > │ ├── defaults > │ ├── ingest > │ ├── monitoring > │ └── zookeeper > └── inventory.py > > 1. I completely eschew Ansible's "all" supergroup because precedence was > not behaving as I expected. > 2. I use a dynamic inventory script which adds all my groups to a > "defaults" supergroup. This is my "all" replacement, so env/defaults is my > new group_vars/all. The script also manually reads in env/defaults and sets > the vars in the JSON output. > 3. env/defaults can specify site-wide defaults which can be overridden by > env/dev/group_vars/defaults. There's a third level of specificity at > env/dev/group_vars/$group, e.g. env/dev/group_vars/zookeeper, which would > override anything in env/dev/group_vars/defaults. > > I'd really like to see Ansible create an official solution to this common > problem. It'd take the burden off devs and increase uniformity in Ansible > automation. > > One awkward piece of my setup is having to set all my vars at the > inventory level, when much of it belongs at the playbook level. > -- 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/37b24995-401e-4528-a0aa-116a72d319e1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
