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Hello Folks,

My Inventory has a mix of Linux and windows hosts. Under every group i dont want to pass the connection information like ansible_connection=winrm, ansible_port=5986 etc… I want to have a standard location for the connection information and I dont want to pass connection info for every group as my inventory will have hundreds of groups?

[xxx]
linux.com ansible_connection=ssh
windows.com ansible_connection=winrm

What can I do to address this situation?

Thanks

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You want group vars (unless your windows and linux hosts are in the same group,
but unless you're applying the same roles to both you probably don't
have that.).

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_inventory.html#splitting-out-host-and-group-specific-data