Managing complex inventory

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I’m managing multiple separate applications from my Ansible repo, each with a different set of servers. Each application has multiple instances (dev, stage, prod).
To manage all this I have a whole bunch of inventory files:

  • app1
  • app1_variant1
  • dev
  • stage
  • prod- app1_variant2
  • dev
  • stage
  • prod- app2
  • dev
  • stage
  • prod- etc.
    (that’s 9 separate inventory files for those 2 apps).

Is there a better way to manage this? How does everyone else deal with lots of applications with different sets of servers?

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Basically you don’t need different inventory files if you don’t want them to be.

More than likely, you’ll just want to seperate dev/stage/prod and have groups for the apps.