Hello, I need to build Ansible inventory files, but somehow got stuck. Typically for a service, there is development, staging and production. Initially, I thought I can create 3 inventory files with those names. Later I feel it may not be the case. As I look at this Ansible document: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html#example-group-by-function, it actually lists (3) grouping methods, by environment, by functions, and by locations. Can I have a inventory file that is both grouped by environment and by functions? It seems not possible. For example, consider the following inventory file named as myservices:
[development] testwebserver1 testwebserver2 testloadbalancer1 [production] webserver1 webserver2 loadbalancer1 [myservices:children] development production If the inventory file is development or production, that means it would include all other services and it will become a big inventory file, and playbook will be hard to write to manage all kinds services, for example, development inventory file: [myservice1] testwebserver1 testwebserver2 [myservice2] testwebserver3 testwebserver4 [load_balancers] loadbalancer1 [development:children] myservice1 myservice2 load_balancers Is it a good practice to break down one big inventory file containing a lot of services into inventory files just for that service like the first one? Thank you, - Xinhuan Zheng -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/1517c5c1-31e0-4eaa-b793-1d7fd3846cd3%40googlegroups.com.
