host_group_vars - In charge of loading group_vars and host_vars¶

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis ¶

Loads YAML vars into corresponding groups/hosts in group_vars/ and host_vars/ directories.
Files are restricted by extension to one of .yaml, .json, .yml or no extension.
Hidden (starting with ‘.’) and backup (ending with ‘~’) files and directories are ignored.
Only applies to inventory sources that are existing paths.

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
_valid_extensions	Default: [u'.yml', u'.yaml', u'.json']	ini entries: [yaml_valid_extensions ] defaults = [u'.yml', u'.yaml', u'.json'] env:ANSIBLE_YAML_FILENAME_EXT	Check all of these extensions when looking for 'variable' files which should be YAML or JSON or vaulted versions of these. This affects vars_files, include_vars, inventory and vars plugins among others.

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