# Inheriting static group\_var data with dynamic inventory?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/inheriting-static-group-var-data-with-dynamic-inventory/20143>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inheriting-static-group-var-data-with-dynamic-inventory/20143 "2016-01-07T19:33:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Adam\_Kosmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@Adam\_Kosmin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adam_Kosmin)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inheriting-static-group-var-data-with-dynamic-inventory/20143/1 "2016-01-07T19:33:04Z")

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Greets,

Assuming I’ve got the following defined in group\_vars:foo.yml

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Kosmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@Adam\_Kosmin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adam_Kosmin)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inheriting-static-group-var-data-with-dynamic-inventory/20143/2 "2016-01-07T19:34:08Z")

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Sorry, meant to say bar: baz is defined in group\_vars/foo.yml

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**Author:** ![Josh\_Smift1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Josh\_Smift1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Josh_Smift1)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inheriting-static-group-var-data-with-dynamic-inventory/20143/3 "2016-01-07T19:49:58Z")

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AQ ([https://github.com/caredotcom/ansible-quartermaster](https://github.com/caredotcom/ansible-quartermaster)) might be of interest.

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Kosmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@Adam\_Kosmin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adam_Kosmin)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inheriting-static-group-var-data-with-dynamic-inventory/20143/4 "2016-01-08T19:13:12Z")

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Josh,

Thanks for the link but that’s not going to be a good fit. I’m trying to use the add\_host module to dynamically alter group memberships of tagged instances in AWS. It would be great if anyone could provide an example of how this might be done? I know the currently accepted approach is to manually maintain these group relationships in static inventory files as per [http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro\_dynamic\_inventory.html#static-groups-of-dynamic-groups](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_dynamic_inventory.html#static-groups-of-dynamic-groups) but that makes me depressed.

Best,  
Adam