EC2 script cache across inventories

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We split our ec2 environment into separate vpcs and until now, have been deploying to each via our own laptops. (Limited to credentials root users, 2)

I ran into an issue today where I did the following:

ansible-playbook -i inventories/staging myawesomeplaybook.yml

*Runs playbook on staging instances as expected

ansible-playbook -i inventories/production myawesomeplaybook.yml

!Runs playbook on staging instances when should actually be production

Clearing out the ec2 cache resulted in the correct behavior, but this seems like a very dangerous characteristic. Is there an idiomatic way of handling differing staging from production inventories in EC2?

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I would update the ec2.ini to use different cache directories.

cache_path = ~/.ansible/tmp/ec2_prod

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Thanks, that worked great!