# ansible tower, inventories, group and host\_vars

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-inventories-group-and-host-vars/25267>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 16, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-inventories-group-and-host-vars/25267 "2017-08-16T15:12:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/74df32/32.png) [@Asil](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Asil)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-inventories-group-and-host-vars/25267/1 "2017-08-16T15:12:14Z")

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We’ve implemented our ansible directory structure for multi-stage environments as per the digital ocean [blogpost](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-manage-multistage-environments-with-ansible#ansible-recommended-strategy-using-groups-and-multiple-inventories)  
The inventory files and roles vars are separated out in this manner and kept in version control along with the ansible code.

We’re now looking at tower however, Tower seems to want us to import the vars as per the docs [here](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/administration/tipsandtricks.html#importing-existing-inventory-files-and-host-group-vars-into-tower) or add them to an inventory.  
This seems like a step backward - maybe I’ve missed something?

Is there any way to get tower to use the environment specific inventores and their relative group\_vars and host\_vars directories?

Regards,

Asil