read host from another inventory file

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1

I have two inventory files, staging and production.

staging contents:

[server]
192.168.56.101  #server 1
192.168.56.103  #server 2

production contents:

[server]
192.168.56.108  #server test
2

You can put both staging and production inventories in a folder, inventory, and call ansible-playbook -i inventory/ and both sets of hosts will be available to you.

If you use hosts: all anywhere in your playbook, this might not work, since it will target both environments. In that case I do hosts: “{{hosts}}” and specify the target on the command line

ansible-playbook - inventory/ -e hosts=staging

3

I changed the structure by following this tutorial , because I need staging and production have different database configuration. I still had the same issue with it.
new structure :

roles
production
–|group_vars
----|server.yml
–|inventory
staging

–|group_vars
----|server.yml
–|inventory