Hi,
I've been playing with Ansible for some time and I'm hitting the wall when
it comes to re-usability.
I find that Ansible requires me to duplicate many of my tasks just to cater
that specific needs.
Maybe it's the lacking on my side. So, I hope you guys can kindly shed some
light on this.
I notice that the tasks are very 'strict'. Once we provide an optional
param, the rest of the lists must provide it too.
Say. I want to create two users:
vars:
- users:
- { name: test1, uid: 1234 }
- { name: test2 }
Ideal case would be:
tasks:
- name: creating user
user: name={{ item.name }} uid={{ item.uid }}
with_items: users
ie, I hope Ansible will be smart enough to ignore the optional 'uid'
for 'test2' but it wont.
The implication is big. Instead of creating a role name 'os_create_user'
and passing "users" with the neeeded param as the var,
I need to identify the needed users/param beforehand and create the same
tasks for each. To put in short, I cannot create them dynamically.
Worse,I cannot share it between different playbooks because of the 'strict'
requirement.
So, I ended up creating the same thing for other roles, this time with just
an extra parameter.
Actually thats some others that I'm having prob with, but I will keep it at
that first.
Many thanks in advance for any guidance on this.
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