# Use multiple inventories in job template

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-multiple-inventories-in-job-template/36699>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [June 8, 2022, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-multiple-inventories-in-job-template/36699 "2022-06-08T06:01:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pranav\_T\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@Pranav\_T\_P](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pranav_T_P)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-multiple-inventories-in-job-template/36699/1 "2022-06-08T06:01:18Z")

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We are keeping all our common/global variables in a different inventory path and DC/group specific variables in different path. This is to avoid repetitive entries of variables since our infra is distributed across multiple DCs. While running playbook we are passing both the inventories as below:

Eg:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/01-common -i inventory/provo-dc/production.yml playbooks/base/sshd.yml

Is there any way to achieve this in AWX job templates ?

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**Author:** ![iamroddo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/iamroddo/32/321_2.png) [@iamroddo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/iamroddo)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 6:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-multiple-inventories-in-job-template/36699/2 "2022-06-08T06:05:02Z")

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Only a single inventory can be specified. But multiple inventory sources can be included in an inventory.

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**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-multiple-inventories-in-job-template/36699/3 "2022-06-08T19:26:38Z")

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You may also achieve this by using smart inventories [https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/inventories.html#smart-inventories](https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/inventories.html#smart-inventories)

Seth

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**Author:** ![Pranav\_T\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@Pranav\_T\_P](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pranav_T_P)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/use-multiple-inventories-in-job-template/36699/4 "2022-06-09T06:04:18Z")

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Thanks. This worked for me !