The name of the current inventory file in use is stored in the
"inventory_file" variable name, so you could check that. Beyond that, there
are two other options:
1. Use --extra-vars to specify the target environment, for example:
--extra-vars="inventory=qa"
2. The group_vars location is based on the location of the inventory file,
so you could do something like this:
qa/group_vars/all:
inventory=qa
prod/group_vars/all:
inventory=production
The qa/hosts and prod/hosts would contain your different inventories, so
you'll get output like this:
$ cat play.yml
- hosts: all
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: show the variable
debug: var=inventory
$ ansible-playbook play.yml -i prod/hosts
PLAY [all]
********************************************************************
TASK: [show the variable]
*****************************************************
ok: [you] => {
"inventory": "production"
}
PLAY RECAP
********************************************************************
you : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
$ ansible-playbook play.yml -i qa/hosts
PLAY [all]
********************************************************************
TASK: [show the variable]
*****************************************************
ok: [me] => {
"inventory": "qa"
}
PLAY RECAP
********************************************************************
me : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
Hope that helps.
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Drew Gulino <dgul...@bandwidth.com> wrote:
> As suggested in the best practices doc, have two inventory files: qa and
> production
>
> I call these using the -i parameter:
>
> ansible-playbook -i qa ...
>
> Is there a way I can determine in my playbook which inventory I am using?
> The use case is I want to notify one chat room if using qa inventory,
> another if I use production.
>
>
> I've tried just putting a variable in the root of the inventory file qa:
>
> inventory=qa
> [webservers]
> host1
>
> but that doesn't work: is not displayed as a variable with: "ansible host1
> -m setup -i qa"
>
> I can define a variable for each host like:
>
> [webservers]
> host1 inventory=qa
>
> but that is terribly redundant.
>
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