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James Cammarata
a2599cab79 Fix variable precedence of INI/script vars to be in-line with docs.
This commit also adds a new test script (ansible-var-precedence-check.py in code-smell/)
to provide us with another line of defense against precedence bugs going forward.

The precedence docs state that the INI vars have a lower precedence than group/host
vars files for inventory and playbooks, however that has not been the case since 2.0
was released. This change fixes that in one way, though not exactly as the docs say.
The rules are:

1) INI/script < inventory dir < playbook dir
2) "all" group vars < other group_vars < host_vars

So the new order will be (from the test script mentioned above):

8. pb_host_vars_file - var in playbook/host_vars/host
9. ini_host_vars_file - var in inventory/host_vars/host
10. ini_host - host var inside the ini
11. pb_group_vars_file_child - var in playbook/group_vars/child
12. ini_group_vars_file_child - var in inventory/group_vars/child
13. pb_group_vars_file_parent - var in playbook/group_vars/parent
14. ini_group_vars_file_parent - var in inventory/group_vars/parent
15. pb_group_vars_file_all - var in playbook/group_vars/all
16. ini_group_vars_file_all - var in inventory/group_vars/all
17. ini_child - child group var inside the ini
18. ini_parent - parent group var inside the ini
19. ini_all - all group var inside the ini

Fixes #21845
2017-03-02 17:07:00 -06:00
scottb
0bd2714122 Update playbooks_variables.rst
Minor edits
2017-03-01 13:18:12 -05:00
Brian Coca
cf3edf0989 more examples and clearer override docs for conn
fixes #21866
2017-03-01 13:18:12 -05:00
Alvaro Aleman
1b2ad94496 Configurable fact path (#18147)
* Make fact_path configurable

* Add docs for fact_path

* Add tests for localfacts

* Default fact gathering settings in PlayContext
2017-01-12 10:49:04 -05:00
Toshio Kuratomi
adb7426c0c Some more code-block fixes 2017-01-07 11:47:35 -08:00
John R Barker
7df31aaca1 Fix all RST errors for docs/docsite/rst (#20005)
* developing_modules.rst is now in dev_guide, sync changes and delete the old version
* Cleaner RST & formatted code
* Tidyup roadmaps
* Link to repomerge
* Pull in abadger's fixes From https://github.com/ansible/ansible/compare/docs-code-block-fixes?expand=1
* Clean docsite/rst (apart from ROADMAP
2017-01-07 11:38:52 -08:00
Brian Coca
57f8b791d6 consolidated docs
point to new doc locations
removed non existing dirs
2017-01-06 09:16:59 -05:00
Renamed from docsite/rst/playbooks_variables.rst (Browse further)