Using playbook|command line|included vars in inventory vars

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I have a situation where it would be helpful to utilize included/playbook variables within inventory variables. For instance;

[ group_vars/lab.yml ]

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Variables are late bound, but I’m curious how you are deciding that it’s not substituting.

name lines don’t show things in inventory scope as they differ between hosts.

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Michael,

My version of ansible is -master (currently 1.4). I realized it wasn’t substituting by testing with and without the variable. So for instance;

[ group_vars/lab.yml ]

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I don’t know where you expect remote_user to be coming from.

Did you mean “ansible_ssh_user” ?

Also did you want a literal “+” in the filename?

In any event, ‘ansible_ssh_user’ is basically an input variable based on who you connect to, and I wouldn’t expect you could use it there.

It would not make sense to put that in inventory because you might connect as a variety of users.

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Michael,

remote_user was a bad example. I am really trying to substitute an INCLUDED or PLAYBOOK variable inside of an inventory variable. Here’s a better example:

[group_vars/lab.yml]

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Please open a github ticket with a linked gist or playbook that reproduces this in hello-world kind of form and I can see if I can reproduce this.

Thanks!