Hi all, in our project we are delivering a set of playbooks and roles to our customer on a regular basis. Our goal here is that the customer should not change our playbooks and roles and that he is able to configure & overwrite *everything *within his inventory via inventory variables, so that he doesn't always have to merge his configuration when we deliver a new release to him. Unfortunately, this approach is currently not possible when using the include_vars module anywhere in our code because it overwrites the inventory variables defined by the customer (which should take precedence of course).
I think this is a quite basic use case and I'm a little bit unhappy that there is still no solution for this yet. E.g. it was already discussed within Proposal #21 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/pull/21>. In that discussion, I proposed a very easy, minimally invasive solution for this: Just adding an option to include_vars which makes it possible to define that already existing variables should not be overwritten by include_vars. Probably, this would also be a helpful option for other use cases as the one described above. For implementation of this approach, I created PR #23738 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/23738> already longer ago and it's idling quite a while now. A few days ago, I reimplemented this PR against the current devel branch and added documentation as well as an integration test. I would really appreciate if some of you may interested in this topic could review this PR (it's just a few lines of code!) and take part of the discussion how to solve this use case. Thanks in advance, Patrick -- 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.
