# merging inventory plugins soon.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/merging-inventory-plugins-soon/24477>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/merging-inventory-plugins-soon/24477 "2017-05-12T20:21:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/merging-inventory-plugins-soon/24477/1 "2017-05-12T20:21:33Z")

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[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/23001](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/23001) \<= new inventory plugins  
almost ready to merge, please review, test, poke before i make /devel  
unstable next week.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/merging-inventory-plugins-soon/24477/2 "2017-05-23T16:27:17Z")

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Last chance to poke at this PR before I merge it into devel, a few  
notes since last time:

- vars plugins are back, changed the API  
- vars plugins now handle all group\_vars/ and host\_vars/ loading,  
moved from inventory to vars manager  
- group variable precedence is now configurable  
- ported virtualbox invetnory script into plugin as 'test for using  
cache plugins in inventory'  
- many docs still need to be written, examples added  
- inventory plugins unlike other types are not loadable by play/role  
as they execute before either are available/known  
- testing custom plugins currently requires adding a path for them in  
ansible.cfg  
- split out inventory and vars classes from \_\_init\_\_.py

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/23001](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/23001)

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**Author:** ![bob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/bob/32/9260_2.png) [@bob](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bob)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/merging-inventory-plugins-soon/24477/3 "2017-05-24T07:40:51Z")

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Would the issue I just posted be related to this PR?

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/24963](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/24963)