Hello Vladimir, thank you for the response!

My understanding was that group_vars needed to be in the same directory as 
the inventory to work, but in your example it looks like group_vars is one 
directory up, is that correct?

On Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 5:32:49 PM UTC-6, David Sudia wrote:
>
> Here is my directory structure:
>
> dba.yml (a playbook)
> inventory/
>   union.gcp.yml (a dynamic gcp inventory)
>   group_vars/
>     all/
>       vars.yml
>       vault.yml
>     dba/
>       vars.yml
> roles/
>   someroleshere/
>
> The command I'm running is 
> $ ansible-playbook -i inventory --vault-password-file=/path/to/file dba.
> yml
>
> Ansible reads my inventory just fine and connects to correct VM. The first 
> variable it wants is 
> disks
> which is an array of dicts to format and mount.
>
> Whether I put disks in the dba/vars.yml (the correct place for it to be) 
> or all/vars.yml, Ansible gets to that variable and says it's undefined.
>
> I have this big messy Ansible repo where everything works but it's a mess, 
> that I'm starting fresh on because I read back through the docs and 
> realized I wasn't following any best practices, and now I'm trying to 
> follow them to the letter and can't get it to work.
>
> Any help appreciated, thanks!
>

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