We use ansible-galaxy for a lot of roles and dynamic inventory with multiple cloud providers.
The following works if there is a single hosts file next to ec2.py. But if I want to have distinct hosts files for isolating some servers for testing, I cannot just do -i inventory/ec2_hosts_test as ec2.py gets ignored.
[ansible_deploy_vars] ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml
├── ansible_deploy_vars
------- site.yml
│ ├── inventory
│ │ ├── ec2.py
│ │ ├── ec2_hosts_all
│ │ └── ec2_hosts_test
│ └── vars_plugins
│ └── myplugin.py
http://docs.ansible.com/intro_dynamic_inventory.html#static-groups-of-dynamic-groups
This could be done by sub-pathing inventory/ but then you have to symlink ec2.py all over the place.
This can also be done by adding --limit “” but I would prefer to have separate host files. For one thing, the command line switches can’t be checked into git for sharing. With separate host files, you could also dummy proof executing plays against certain groups of hosts by checking them in with ansible-vault.
Does anyone have a good solution for achieving these goals?