variables defined in the Inventory

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Dear all,

I have an inventory defined in the way below:

[Group1]
host1

[Group1:vars]
package_name: aaa

foo: bar

[Group2]
host1

[Group2:vars]
package_name: bbb
foo1: bar

then I defined a playbook for the hosts with: Group2. But when I execute the playbook, I found the package_name was in aaa instead of bbb.

What’s the problem here?

Thanks for the advice
Regards, Wenxing

2

There is no problem, this is how Ansible work.

You always get all the variables for a host regardless from where the variable is defined, inventory, group_vars and host_vars.

So in you example host1 will always have foo and foo1 defined.
And since package_name is set two times for host1 only the last one will stick since the variable is overwritten.

3

Get it. Many thanks for the feedback.