Ansible selects wrong group_vars in combination with --limit and host in multiple groups

[cisarpavel]

ISSUE TYPE

Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

group vars selection

ANSIBLE VERSION

2.1.1.0

CONFIGURATION

default pip install

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Ubuntu 16.04

SUMMARY

If you have host defined in more groups, and you will run playbook with --limit arg for the one of them, ansible loads vars for all groups where the host is assigned and take varibles from the latest loaded group vars ignoring --limit arg.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

host file

[agroup]
server

[zgroup]
server

group_vars structure folders/file structure

group_vars
    - agroup
        - vars
    - zgroup
        - vars

run

ansible-playbook some_palybook.yml --limit=agroup

ansible will took variables from zgroup instead of limited agroup

EXPECTED RESULTS

playbook will select correct group_vars for agroup

ACTUAL RESULTS

playbook selects group_vars for zgroup

[bcoca]

Possible Misunderstanding

Hi!

Thanks very much for your submission to Ansible. It sincerely means a lot to us.

We believe the ticket you have filed is being somewhat misunderstood, as one thing works a little differently than stated.

Ansible loads inventory independent from from play targets, --limit only affects play targets and is not designed to restrict inventory loading.

In the future, this might be a topic more well suited for the user list, which you can also post here if you'd like some more help with the above.

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project

Thank you once again for this and your interest in Ansible!