Hello, I'm attempting to make some things happen with nested playbooks. Seems like including full on playbooks (as opposed to "taskbooks") from within "tasks" is not supported as described here <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/15309#issuecomment-206786728>. Doing vars, vars_files, vars_prompts are not supported when including at the playbook level is not supported. Also, doing variable substitution at this level is also tricky. Doing variable substitution with variables supplied at the inventory level (IE group_vars) is not supported. This also seems to be the case with group_vars at the playbook level. However, extra-vars are able to be substituted as described here <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/WdvouAZ3BUM/ORDHjqCZgJAJ>.
I figured maybe I'd be able to get around some of these things by using callbacks or vars_plugins. Callbacks seem to happen after playbook parsing so that is a no go. The vars_plugins don't seem to be able to access variables at the same scope that extra-vars are at. I can manipulate the 'all' group but that doesn't seem to matter. Judging by the post in the previous link a dynamic inventory wont' help. Only solution I'm seeing currently is creating some sort of wrapper around ansible-playbook that passes the correct extra-vars or requiring my users to pass something which I'm not really fond of. Is there any way I can extend Ansible to allow for manipulating the extra-vars variables so I can do variable substitution at the playbook level? Any help would be much appreciated. I am usually able to navigate around any Ansible problems I have but seem to be stuck on this one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
