# Where to store environmental variables

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/where-to-store-environmental-variables/14209>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 23, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/where-to-store-environmental-variables/14209 "2013-12-23T18:34:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rafal\_Hajduk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Rafal\_Hajduk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rafal_Hajduk)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/where-to-store-environmental-variables/14209/1 "2013-12-23T18:34:10Z")

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According to [this article](http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks_best_practices.html) I should create files like PRODUCTION or STAGING with lists of hosts that belong to these environments.

But how can I specify variables for these environments? For example variable ERROR\_REPORTING.

Is there any way to create something similar to /group\_vars ? For example /environment\_vars ?

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/where-to-store-environmental-variables/14209/2 "2013-12-24T17:52:06Z")

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In my case (many ways to do this), everything in the production inventory is part of the production group, so group\_vars/production works for me.