how to override entry in a dictionary

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hi

assuming a have some dictionary variables defined in some group_vars location:

level0:
level1-a:

somevalue: aaa
someothervalue: 111

level1-b:

somevalue: bbb

someothervalue: 222

level1-c:

somevalue: ccc

someothervalue: 333

Basically i would like to setup an ‘override’ vars file (lets take a host_vars as an example) for the single entry so that:

level0:

level1-b:
somevalue: abc #value to override

Is overriding a single value in a dictionary possible?

Thanks for any insight.

2

May be below can be a hint

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_configuration.html#hash-behaviour

and

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_filters.html#combining-hashes-dictionaries

HTH