# Using 2 inventories. Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 13, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-2-inventories-can-someone-explain-what-im-doing-wrong/26719 "2018-02-13T16:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Varun\_Chopra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/54ee81/32.png) [@Varun\_Chopra](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Varun_Chopra)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-2-inventories-can-someone-explain-what-im-doing-wrong/26719/1 "2018-02-13T16:06:35Z")
So I plan to use a static and a dynamic inventory (gce) and this is what my play folder looks like: ` . ├── ansible.cfg ├── credentials.json ├── gce\_vars │ ├── auth │ └── test\_servers ├── group\_vars │ └── all ├── hosts.yml ├── inventory │ ├── gce.ini │ ├── gce.py │ └── hosts.yml └── provision.yml 3 directories, 10 files ` credentials.json is the json private key for my service account. ` [root@workstation gcloud]# cat gce\_vars/auth ---
**Author:** ![slavko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/slavko/32/8869_2.png) [@slavko](https://forum.ansible.com/u/slavko)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-2-inventories-can-someone-explain-what-im-doing-wrong/26719/2 "2018-02-13T17:38:42Z")
> Missing (or not readable) key file: ‘/workstation/gcloud/credentials.json’ what says ls -la /workstation/gcloud | grep credentials.json ? ---
**Author:** ![Varun\_Chopra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/54ee81/32.png) [@Varun\_Chopra](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Varun_Chopra)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-2-inventories-can-someone-explain-what-im-doing-wrong/26719/3 "2018-02-13T19:07:26Z")
Thanks. I read your post and realized what I did wrong. /workspace was my working directory and workstation’s my hostname. Mixed up the two. :l