I'm very new to using ansible; please forgive my ignorance. I need to manage groups of machines that all look identical in their "group." For various reasons I cannot just use an instance template in my cloud providers and some on-host bootstrap to configure the nodes when they start.
I have managed to get all of my variables to properly include by doing something like https://github.com/jfreeland/ansible-structure. Give it a shot. This is not what other examples tend to look like. I've spoken with a couple peers who were surprised this worked and suggested not going this route. For various reasons I have to use ansible 2.9 for now. I don't see any reason in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.22/lib/ansible/inventory/group.py why I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing. Is this not 'supported'? Is this an anti-pattern? Can anyone recommend an alternative or more appropriate approach to deeply nested group variable inheritance with as little repeating yourself as practical? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-devel/b2d8b0eb-2f7e-485c-aad9-dc7da536c768n%40googlegroups.com.
