The information you are looking for in nicely documented in the Ansible
docs - http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html
You need to create forlders named exactly as 'group_vars' and 'host_vars'
right beside your host file and in them you create files with the same name
as your group or host (optionaly with a .yaml extension).
On Thursday, 31 March 2016 21:51:39 UTC+5:30, thanstra wrote:
>
> Can someone give me a more complete example of how to tie together ansible
> hosts file and the hosts_var directory?
>
> My ansible hosts file is getting out of hand and I want to break it up
> better. I use variables for various pieces of info. Currently my hosts file
> has sections like this:
>
> [myserver]
> myserver.my.domain
>
>
> [myserver:vars]
> host=myserver.my.domain
> tagName=myserver
> tagOwner=thanstra
> tagBackup=True
>
> And then I can later use the variables which are set there:
>
> - name: Tag the instance Name
> command: aws ec2 create-tags --resources {{ ansible_ec2_instance_id }}
> --tags Key=Name,Value={{ tagName }}
>
> I'd like to break this up to build files in hosts_var with those various
> vars in separate files for each server. But I'm having trouble figuring out
> the right syntax, naming conventions, etc for what needs to go in ansible
> hosts file and host_vars/[connected file].
>
> Can someone give me clear information on what files I need and what the
> syntax of the files should look like?
>
> Thank you!
>
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