site.yml file location and roles

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All,

Is it possible to have the site.yml file and hosts file in a subdirectory like this:

root/
group_vars/
roles

…
sites/
office_name/
hosts
site.yml

When I tried to do this with ansible-playbook sites/office_name/hosts -i sites/office_name/site.yml
I got an error message about being unable to find roles.

Do I need to change the roles_path setting - or is this not possible.
The reason is for a shared project with multiple sites and I dont want everything at the top level.

Cheers
Dan

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Read the documentation about setting the roles path in ansible.cfg or via environment variables.

It doesn’t know how to climb up and find your roles, basically.