I like options. Thanks

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>wrote:

> Very very easy and you have many options!
>
> You have the "when" conditional for one, which can easily key off facts
> like "ansible_os_family".
>
> - shell: /usr/bin/foo
>   when: "ansible_os_family == 'redhat'"
>
> You have things like "include_vars" which can include variables based on
> OS facts (1.4) at role or task level
>
> - include_vars: "{{ansible_os_family}}.yml"
>
> or even
>
> - include_vars: redhat.yml
>   when: "ansible_os_family == 'redhat'"
>
> You can also do this with "vars_files" at the play level:
>
> - hosts: webservers
>   vars_files: "{{ ansible_os_family}}.yml"
>
> You can have roles for each OS if you want and include a common role
> dependency for common parts
>
> (see roles chapter in docs)
>
> You can have a standard task file and do things like:
>
> - include: redhat.yml
>   when: "ansible_os_family == 'redhat'"
>
> So, yes, lots of options!
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Eric Palmer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have a multi host deployment playbook that needs to service Nnbuntu and
>> Amazon linux (RPB based)  servers. Some of the common tasks are very
>> specific to debian like OS and some to RPB based OS.  How do I get the
>> common tasks to just run what is appropriate?
>>
>> thanks
>>
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