> I feel like most people run their Ansible scripts from the Ansible root directory and mentally treat that as the directory that Ansible should be searching for vars/roles/inventory/etc, _especially_ since the `ansible.cfg` is located there.
Your last two years must've been bloody awful. On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 12:31:42 PM UTC+5:30, Percy Grunwald wrote: > > I've decided to drop my two cents in here as well since I have spent the > past hour trawling Google for advice about this issue and found nothing > that I consider to be an acceptable solution. > > In my opinion, Ansible's behavior when moving playbooks into a > subdirectory (but still running them from the root directory) is > unintuitive and doesn't seem to match how other programs work. I could > enumerate all of the things that stop working, but I think it's sufficient > to say that the expected behavior for the majority of people would be as > follows: > > Given that my directory structure is exactly the same as the layout shown > in > http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_best_practices.html#directory-layout, > > and I am running my scripts from the Ansible root directory like: > > ``` > cd /path/to/project/ansible > ansible-playbook site.yml > ``` > > If I copy `site.yml` into any subdirectory of the Ansible root folder: > > ``` > mkdir -p playbooks/subdir > cp site.yml playbooks > cp site.yml playbook/subdir > ``` > > Then the following commands should all be **identical**: > > ``` > ansible-playbook site.yml > ansible-playbook playbooks/site.yml > ansible-playbook playbooks/subdir/site.yml > ``` > > In the 2+ years I have been using Ansible, I haven't encountered a > situation where the current default behavior would have been beneficial > compared to the behavior I outlined above. I feel like most people run > their Ansible scripts from the Ansible root directory and mentally treat > that as the directory that Ansible should be searching for > vars/roles/inventory/etc, _especially_ since the `ansible.cfg` is located > there. > > It would be really great if there was a setting that would make Ansible > behave in the way I have outlined. I would suggest a boolean variable > called something like `lock_working_dir` or `lock_base_dir` that would > "lock" Ansible to the `pwd` when searching for vars/roles/inventory/etc. > > This would be a huge boon for organization. I'm happy to have a go at this > if this is something that would get considered for PR. > -- 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/a236b777-d220-485a-8f05-aa2cfa95422c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
