# Using group\_vars with dynamic inventory groups **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ansible-project\ **Created:** [February 16, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526 "2015-02-16T15:09:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/1 "2015-02-16T15:09:01Z")
for static groups vars to be loaded try adding the group in a static file also, even if just empty. static\_inventory: [test\_env\_test] ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Paine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tom\_Paine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tom_Paine)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/2 "2015-02-16T15:18:26Z")
added line to “./inventory/test/test” as suggested: ` [local] localhost target\_environment=“test” dev\_key=“aws-xxx” [tag\_env\_test] ` No change. Variable is still not defined. ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/3 "2015-02-16T15:24:19Z")
loaded after all InventoryParsers are done. Which ansible version are you using?​ ​I think that was a bug in 1.7, solved in 1.8, not sure if backported.​ ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Paine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tom\_Paine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tom_Paine)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/4 "2015-02-16T15:32:20Z")
` $ ansible --version ansible 1.8.2 configured module search path = None $ ansible-playbook --version ansible-playbook 1.8.2 configured module search path = None ` Is there anything else I can show to work out whether I have made a mistake or there is a bug? ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/5 "2015-02-16T15:41:13Z")
Perhaps if you could put a minimal example in a gist, that reproduces this?​ ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Paine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tom\_Paine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tom_Paine)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/6 "2015-02-16T16:15:48Z")
Edited out a proof of concept from the repo: [https://github.com/aioue/ansible-test](https://github.com/aioue/ansible-test) ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/7 "2015-02-16T18:20:46Z")
​I'm afraid I don't have any AWS credentials to test this. Can you perhaps provide the plain json dump​ - can be redacted? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Paine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tom\_Paine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tom_Paine)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/8 "2015-02-16T18:39:15Z")
Are you looking for the output of the config playbook with -vvvv? ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/9 "2015-02-16T18:46:40Z")
​no the output of your inventory plugin, which is json​ ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Paine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tom\_Paine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tom_Paine)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/10 "2015-02-17T18:22:42Z")
[https://gist.github.com/aioue/6036fd738f40e8f44a41](https://gist.github.com/aioue/6036fd738f40e8f44a41) ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-group-vars-with-dynamic-inventory-groups/17526/11 "2015-02-17T19:07:59Z")
Seems I can’t reproduce your problem: [mstr] serge@cyberlab:~/tmp/ansible-test$ tree . ├── aws-configure.yml ├── aws-provision.yml ├── inventory │ ├── ec2.py-output.json │ └── group\_vars │ └── tag\_env\_test.yml ├── README.md └── vars ├── aws\_secrets.yml └── aws\_vars.yml 3 directories, 7 files [mstr] serge@cyberlab:~/tmp/ansible-test$ ANSIBLE\_NOCOWS=1 ansible-playbook -i inventory aws-configure.yml PLAY [!local;tag\_role\_db:&tag\_status\_new] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* TASK: [debug var=groups[‘tag\_env\_test’]] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [54.x] =\> { “groups[‘tag\_env\_test’]”: [ “54.x” ] } TASK: [debug var={{ region }}] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [54.x] =\> { “eu-west-1”: “eu-west-1” } PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* 54.x : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 Tested with ansible 1.7.2, 1.8.2 and latest devel.