ansible provisioner using group_vars

[ghost]

This issue was originally opened by @jesusch as hashicorp/packer#9540. It was migrated here as a result of the Packer plugin split. The original body of the issue is below.

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I have multiple inventory files per environment:

ansible git:(master) ✗ ls hosts 
hosts.dev               hosts.old            hosts.prod              staging                
hosts.ds                hosts.poc           
hosts.inf            

any of those inventories has group_vars for e.g. frontend servers
my packer.json file looks like:

  "provisioners": [
    {
      "type": "ansible",
      "playbook_file": "packer/playbooks/frontend.yml",
      "groups": [ "frontends" ],
      "inventory_directory": "hosts/hosts.{{ user `env` }}",
      "extra_arguments": [
        "--ssh-extra-args", "-o IdentitiesOnly=yes"
      ]
    }
  ],

while running this task packer always creates a dynamic inventory which does not include my group_vars:

ansible-playbook -e ... -i hosts/hosts.preprev/packer-provisioner-ansible441481275 ..ansible/packer/playbooks/frontend.yml
How do I add already defined inventory variables to such a packer host?

[NicolasCARPi]

Hello,

In my hands this is no longer a problem so I guess this issue can be closed. Groups are correctly taken into account by the provisioner.

Cheers,
~Nico