"I'm looking for something similar with static inventories. What I was trying to explain was I though I could combine a static host list with my rollup groups file, but only if I put each static inventory in a separate directory with a copy of rollup groups. As far as I am aware, that's the only way to combine inventories."
You can already reference one groupname (on 1.7 or devel) in another inventory file, so AFAIK what you speak of is possible, or I'm not understanding it completely. "But I'm open to any other option...For example, if there was a way to combine inventories without having them in the same directory, or if there was a task-based solution to automatically populate parent groups." Symlinks. and if you really want a giant sledgehammer of awesome for inventory management - Ansible Tower. It provides graphical inventory editing and you can sync a group with any inventory file, and has some really nice things to control sync'ing of cloud inventories - on different schedules - on playbook launches, with cache timeouts, and lots of things like that. On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Serge van Ginderachter < se...@vanginderachter.be> wrote: > > On 15 August 2014 14:19, Matthew Simon <matthew.b.si...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> though I could combine a static host list with my rollup groups file, but >> only if I put each static inventory in a separate directory with a copy of >> rollup groups. As far as I am aware, that's the only way to combine >> inventories. > > > To me, that is not really needed, but it could make a corner case work, so > having details would help to understand your setup. > > Could you elaborate why that would be needed, and how this would look > exactly? > > > Serge > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEhzMJDLVZzqSeiXPv_7OOe8HAJN6cX%2Bp2GJAEf_6tMkTzqd8w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEhzMJDLVZzqSeiXPv_7OOe8HAJN6cX%2Bp2GJAEf_6tMkTzqd8w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgxDi7cG_-2U%3Dbx3EfKgfd94OuEu7uC%3D%2BvTOgRj8WNgXgw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
