Hi all,
I have a bunch of playbooks which only define what needs to be done, and i
had split my inventory in some logical groups, so each inventory file is a
complete definition of this group and to run run any playbook, i would
simply use the desired inventory file.
The hosts part of my playbook is defined by a variable and this variable is
defined by a file which i will always find next to any of my inventory. So
i would simply load this file in my playbooks like this:
vars_file
- "{{inventory_dir}}/host_definition.yaml"
It worked perfectly fine till now, but i see that this is going to break in
Ansible 2.4 as *inventory_dir *is now a host var so i cannot use it to load
host variables.
So my questions:
1) Any alternative to get path of inventory file at the global level ?
2) I want to keep the target host list defined (and thus loaded with) in
the inventory. I understand the whole situation where Ansible needs to know
the host vars before loading the variables within, but i would like to load
a global variable from within inventory files. Is this possible ?
Note: In the release notes of Ansible 2.4 (
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.4/CHANGELOG.md#24-dancing-days---2017-09-19
) there is a mention about change in *include_dir* which i think should be
*inventory_dir*
The include_dir var is not a global anymore, as we now allow multiple
inventory sources, it is now host dependant. This means it cannot be used
wherever host vars are not permitted, for example in task/handler names.
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