Unable to resolve variables from group_vars

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Hello All,

Here is my set-up.

  • development

  • inventory

  • group_vars

  • webservers

  • all.yml

  • secret.yml- services

  • all.yml- all.yml- webservers.yml

  • services.yml

My inventory file looks like

[webservers]
dev1

[services]
dev1
dev2

I have 2 play-books , webservers.yml which defines a set of roles for the webserver hosts to be executed and similarly another playbook services.yml for deploying some services.

When i try to execute “ansible-playbook -i development webservers.yml” i could able to resolve all the variable defined in the webservers directory under group var.
But when i try to execute “ansible-playbook -i development services.yml” i could NOT able to resolve any variable defined in “/group_vars/services/all.yml”. But if i keep the same variables in “/group_vars/all.yml” the variables are resolving properly.

I have tried removing the folders in the group_vars and specifying all the variables in webservers.yml and services.yml . But no luck.
As per the ansible doc this should be supported. Could some one help me what is going wrong with the setup.

$ ansible --version
ansible 1.6.6

Regards,
Srinivas

2

Hi,

The group variables are checked in group_vars/<group_name> file so if you create a file group_vars/webservers and place your variables it should appear. same for services,

  • Benno
3

Thanks Benno . Thats worked out.

The main mistake i was doing is creating the file with the name of the playbook but not with the host groups.