What do you mean all of your variables are in roles? As in role defaults?
If so, that's fine, use inventory variables to override them.
Your 3 environment scenario is fairly typical. The approach depends on
you.
Here's a couple of rough approaches (hard to tell based on your
description).
1) have a separate inventory for each environment.
The playbook would be the same, but you would have to point to a different
inventory file for each run (using -i).
2) have each environment be a group(dev, stage, prod), and
group/environment specific vars are set as inventory group_vars. Have your
machines belong to the group that corresponds to their environment, and
they will include the proper variables. Use a intersection host-pattern to
target the group in your playbook:
Assuming env is defined as an extra var, and you ran:
ansible-playbook -e "env=dev" playbook.yml -i inventory/
and playbook.yml started with something like this:
- hosts: web:&{{ env }}
roles:
- foo
- bar
it would target your web servers in your dev environment.
Some folks will even have completely separate cloud credentials for
dev/staging/prod. It all comes down with what level of complexity your
comfortable with.
- James
On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 8:50:13 AM UTC-5, Dan Storm wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm looking at having three environments.
>
> A development, staging and production environment.
>
> Development environment is a local Vagrant box.
> Staging would be a DigitalOcean droplet.
> Production would be several DigitalOcean droplets.
>
> All of the DigitalOcean droplets are fetched with a Dynamic Inventory
> script.
>
>
> Currently, all my variables are stored within the roles, but this doesn't
> work when trying to make this work with multiple environments and I'm
> really confused on as to how to do this right.
>
> I have one playbook for everything. My initial thought would be to split
> up the three environments into separate playbooks. But how do I go around
> with grouping the variables correctly?
>
> Thank you.
>
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