Serge, thanks for the fast clarification. Am Freitag, 17. April 2015 17:43:00 UTC+2 schrieb Serge van Ginderachter: > > > On 17 April 2015 at 17:31, Sandra Parsick <sandra....@googlemail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> So my question, why my expectation is wrong? >> > > > yes, it's a feature, not a bug :) > Io just answered the same question on > https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10755, so copy pasting my > answer: > > This is a feature and not a bug, and has been asked several times yet here > and on the list. You are trying to use a way to define things that just > isn't the way ansible dpes things. > > Ansible only uses variables on the host level. The inventory only returns > variables after they are calculated/inherited down top that host level. > > When you target a play to a particular group, that gets calculated down to > a list of hosts. Whether you call groupA or groupB here, it results in the > same host. And that hosts only has one particular value for myvar, which > happens to be groupB because thats the last one bing parsed. > > To quote the docs: > > Remember: Child groups override parent groups, and hosts always override > their groups. > > > > Serge >
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