title: Playbook directory and Inventory directory
body: <p><a href="http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html#splitting-out-host-and-group-specific-data" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here</a>
  there is a sentence:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Tip: In Ansible 1.2 or later the group_vars/ and host_vars/ directories can exist in the playbook directory OR the inventory directory. If both paths exist, variables in the playbook directory will override variables set in the inventory directory.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>How can I define:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>playbook directory </li>
  <li>inventory directory</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I'm not aware of that configuration and it seems that in my plays with Ansible I always have one dir which was in the same time playbook directory and inventory directory, but such separation could be useful.</p>