Devendra Gogate:
Hello All,
I am trying get my hand dirty on writing basic Inventory file in yml format.
I know that hosts names in the Inventory file must be unique, no duplicates allowed, but other than hosts, can I use similar items in the hierarchy?
eg. in below file I am using the same items Network/Storage/Servers again and again.
Is this correct?
Al West:
Yes, in an Ansible inventory file in YAML format, it is perfectly fine to reuse the same group or variable names at different levels of the hierarchy, as you are doing with Network, Storage, and Servers. These are considered to be child groups under each environment (DEV, UAT, PROD, DR), and Ansible allows them to be reused because they are scoped within their respective parent group.
Devendra Gogate:
Thank you for the confirmation… !!!