Vagrant: Poor Documentation in Ansible inventory_path option without reference to implicit ansible.limit

[Ilhicas]

According to the documentation present at : https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/ansible_intro.html

Under section:
Static Inventory

One can read:
"The second option is for situations where you would like to have more control over the inventory management. With the inventory_path option, you can reference a specific inventory resource (e.g. a static inventory file, a dynamic inventory script or even multiple inventories stored in the same directory). Vagrant will then use this inventory information instead of generating it."

However one should read:
"The second option is for situations where you would like to have more control over the inventory management. With the inventory_path option, you can reference a specific inventory resource (e.g. a static inventory file, a dynamic inventory script or even multiple inventories stored in the same directory). Vagrant will then use this inventory information instead of generating it.

Note: This option doesn't override ansible implicit command defining --limit "TheMachineProvisioned", limiting the playbook defined to this machine name. To allow for the playbook to have access to all machines, please declare in your ansible provision block: ansible.limit = "all"
"

This is because of the implicit ansible.limit, that should be either documented under this section, or overriden if using the ansible.inventory_path, if the user has a bad inventory file, let him find out.

This reminds me of the opposite of one of Python's mantras - Explicit is better than implicit.

[micuffaro]

I bumped into this myself, I could work on this.

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