[ansible-project] How to use group_vars when managed host is in multiple groups?

[bob]

Maybe the question I should be asking is how do people manage what packages 
get installed on what computers?

My approach might be wrong?


I'm trying to figure out how to use group_vars for chocolatey packages to 
install when the managed host is in multiple groups.

I'd like to append package named, identified by the managed host's group 
membership, to the group_var "chocolatey_packages" and use 1 task to 
install all the packages.


The 1 ansible tasks:

- name: Install programs (choco)
  win_chocolatey:
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: "present"
  when:
    - chocolatey_packages is defined
  with_items:
      - "{{ chocolatey_packages }}"

Here is the tree of how I have group_vars and the associated package names 
for that group

CORP/
├── company-wide-package1
├── company-wide-package2
├── company-wide-package3
├── company-wide-package4
├── company-wide-package5
└── sales
    ├── all-sales-people-package1
    ├── all-sales-people-package2
    ├── all-sales-people-package3
    ├── inside
    │   └── all-inside-sales-people-package1
    └── outside
        └── all-outside-sales-people-package1

Every computer is part of the CORP group.

Some computers are part of the Sales group.

Even less computers are part of the inside or outside sales group.


All computers get the "company-wide" packages installed.

All sales computers get the "all-sales-people" packages installed.

All inside sales people get the "all-inside-sales-people" packages 
installed.

All outside sales people get the "all-outside-sales-people" packages 
installed.


I've tried to append list of packages to the chocolatey_packages variable 
but that seems fragile and tightly coupled to my group_vars layout.

Variable definition inside CORP/win_chocolatey.yml

chocolatey_corp_pkgs:
  - cleanup
  - firefox
  - git
  - googlechrome
  - veeam-agent
  - virtualclonedrive
  - winscp

chocolatey_packages: "{{ chocolatey_corp_pkgs }}"


Variable definition inside sales/win_chocolatey.yml

chocolatey_sales_pkgs:
  - crystalreports2010runtime

chocolatey_packages: "{{ chocolatey_corp_pkgs + chocolatey_sales_pkgs }}"


Variable definitions inside the sales/inside/win_chocolatey.yml

chocolatey_inside_sales_pkgs:
  - winscp

chocolatey_packages: "{{ chocolatey_corp_pkgs + chocolatey_sales_pkgs + 
chocolatey_inside_sales_pkgs  }}"

And things do not work properly if a computer is part of the inside and 
outside sales groups (yes, there's 2 computers).



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