Include groups from parent inventory in Smart Inventories

[philipsd6]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Request

SUMMARY

Given an inventory with hosts grouped by environment, function, and region, when I create a Smart Inventory that uses groups.name:prd groups.name:west as the filter, I expect to see at least the resulting hosts grouped by function, but preferably also with all the hosts in the prd and west filters.

Otherwise, there is no point in having any play use anything other than hosts: all because it becomes impossible to orchestrate plays across groups of servers by function when using a Smart Inventory.

A play with:

    - name: Show groups
      debug:
        var: groups

...shows that all the hosts in the Smart Inventory are Ungrouped.

[AlanCoding]

Duplicate of #1999

[philipsd6]

Whoa, I didn't see that duplicate issue. I'll close this one.