Dynamic inventory group as a child of managed group - group_vars unavailable

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I cannot make an ec2 group (via dynamic inventory script) as a child of a managed group defined in hosts.

For example:

  1. ec2 dynamic script returns a group of “tag_worker_1”

  2. hosts file consists of:

[workercommon]

[tag_worker_1:children]
workercommon

  1. group_vars has a file workercommon.yml which includes variables.
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Please note the name of an ec2 tag group will be “ec2_tag_tagName_tagValue” not “tag_tagName_value”. This is likely the problem.

Using the inventory scripts on the development branch, the tag “ec2_tag_tagName” will also be available containing everything with that tag.

Also, mixing dynamic inventory sources and INI files (crossing the streams) is really only a thing on the development branch thanks to a recent patch from @svg.

So I’d definitely recommend trying on 1.7 devel if not already, it will release very soon.

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2. hosts file consists of:

[workercommon]

[tag_worker_1:children]
workercommon

3. group_vars has a file workercommon.yml which includes variables.

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The play's pattern references tag_worker_1 (the ec2 group). However the
variables from the "workercommon" group are not available.

​This is very logic, as your ec2 hosts are not member​ of workercommon, so
they don't get those variables.

[workercommon:children]

tag_worker_1

groups_vars for workercommon will be available. This won't work for me
because I need to compose workercommon with other groups that will not
include tag_worker_1.

Hard to see from here but my guess is you can remodel your groups, and have
an extra group to handle those differences.

Serge