# Load vars directory variables at inventory or playbook level

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-vars-directory-variables-at-inventory-or-playbook-level/15452>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** ansible-devel\
**Created:** [June 12, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-vars-directory-variables-at-inventory-or-playbook-level/15452 "2014-06-12T13:20:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-vars-directory-variables-at-inventory-or-playbook-level/15452/1 "2014-06-12T13:20:28Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Xabier\_Larrakoetxea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f05b48/32.png) [@Xabier\_Larrakoetxea](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Xabier_Larrakoetxea)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-vars-directory-variables-at-inventory-or-playbook-level/15452/2 "2014-06-12T13:22:57Z")

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Wow I dind’t know that!

That’s perfect 🙂 Many thanks