Load vars directory variables at inventory or playbook level

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Hi!

I think that this is not possible at this moment (I don’t know if I’m wrong)

I want to load a common variables directory (vars for example like in role levels) at playbook or inventory levels so I don’t have to set the include_vars or vars_files in each role or task.

I want to do this because I want to store all my sensible data in different encrypted files with vault, I could set this variables in group_vars or host_vars but I don’t want to encrypt all these files, only the ones with the sensible data variables.

This is my actual structure:

./
├── group_vars
│ ├── all
│ └── readme.txt
├── inventories
│ └── sandbox
│ ├── group_vars
│ │ └── all
│ ├── hosts
│ ├── host_vars
│ │ ├── 1.db.master.sandbox.favorshare.org
│ │ ├── 1.lb.sandbox.favorshare.org
│ │ ├── 1.web.sandbox.favorshare.org
│ │ └── 2.web.sandbox.favorshare.org
│ └── vars
│ └── sensible_data.yml
├── main.yml
…

Is a good approach?
I am wrong with some concepts or structure and is a better one?
Could be a feature for a pull request?

Thank you!

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Solved!

This was answered by Serge van Ginderachter at the devel list:

group_vars/all can also be a directory (and so can be any group or host name)

so you could do

group_vars/all/normalstuff.yml
group_vars/all/vaultencryptedstuff.yml