Hi there
The short version: Are the group-names defined in the inventory file the same group-names as in a file below the host_vars folder or can I define separate groups that have nothing to do with each other? This is not clear from reading the documentation [1] but the group names they used in the documentation suggest that. The long version: Intro) I have 3 types of servers (web-servers, application-servers, db-servers) and each of them 3 times for different environments (production, testing, development). As all the servers per type have basically the same config I created 3 groups in my inventory file and 3 different roles, one per group. Now the servers in the same environment (e.g. web-testing, application-testing and db-testing) need to access the same NFS share. So each web-server accesses a different NFS share based on the environment it is in. To mount those NFS shares I need a variable based on the environment and not based on the group the servers are in. The only thing that marks a servers environment is its hostname. That is way I want to define variables based on hosts or their hostnames. Idea1) So far I understand that I could just define that in my inventory inside the groups I already defined. That would look like this [web] web-testing.domain.tld server_env_var: test-nfs web-production.domain.tld server_env_var: prod-nfs web-development.domain.tld server_env_var: dev-nfs [db] db-testing.domain.tld server_env_var: test-nfs db-production.domain.tld server_env_var: prod-nfs etc. Idea2) Or I could use the host_vars folder inside my inventory and create a file for each server including just one variable definition. Problem) Actually I have way more than 3 types of servers and more than 3 different environments. So both solutions turn out to become quite ugly in my opinion. I would prefer having one single file inside the inventory/host_vars folder or inside the role/vars folder defining those server_env_vars. Thus my Idea3) Can I create groups based on environments in my inventory/host_vars/ files? For example in a file called lotsofservers.yml have the following groups that do not match the groups in the inventory file: [testing] web-testing.domain.tld server_env_vars: test-nfs app-testing.domain.tld server_env_vars: test-nfs db-testing.domain.tld server_env_vars: test-nfs [production] web-production.domain.tld server_env_vars: prod-nfs etc. Or Idea4) When using the role/vars folder and putting a main.yml in there, how do I define the variables based on my hosts? Couldn't find that in the documentation... Thanks for any help and best regards, Cyril [1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html#host-variables -- 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/896fb3d5-0449-4354-a0a0-19ff380fb5c3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
