Update docs to include directories inside group_vars

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Hagai 11 years ago
parent 10414145b2
commit e2cc510e37

@ -171,6 +171,17 @@ the 'raleigh' group might look like::
It is ok if these files do not exist, as this is an optional feature.
As an advanced use-case, you can create *directories* named after your groups or hosts, and
Ansible will read all the files in these directories. An example with the 'raleigh' group::
/etc/ansible/group_vars/raleigh/db_settings
/etc/ansible/group_vars/raleigh/cluster_settings
All hosts that are in the 'raleigh' group will have the variables defined in these files
available to them. This can be very useful to keep your variables organized when a single
file starts to be too big, or when you want to use :doc:`Ansible Vault<playbooks_vault>` on a part of a group's
variables.
Tip: In Ansible 1.2 or later the group_vars/ and host_vars/ directories can exist in either
the playbook directory OR the inventory directory. If both paths exist, variables in the playbook
directory will be loaded second.

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