I should also add, the above is not a hack.
It's encouraged syntax :)
roles:
- { role: setup_users, users: "{{ my_users }}" }
etc
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>wrote:
> There's no concept of looping over roles presently.
>
> If you mean passing a list to a role, that's fine, and you can do that.
>
> There's a fundamental reason this is done, in that the role must be
> applied in the same definition (but not the same variables) to each host in
> the host group.
>
> Ergo, you can't have different numbers of roles applied to different hosts
> in the same group based on some kind of inventory variance.
>
> (So you should make a role that can take a list of input items, and then
> loop over it internally)
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> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wondered if this previously-posted hack to loop over roles still the
>> best option out there? (i.e. Without the need to modify the role in
>> question to unroll the loops at a task level, as advocated as a workaround
>> otherwise.)
>>
>> "Looping over roles ?" 5th Nov 2013
>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/3D81SEUoNuQ/discussion
>>
>> Is there any plan afoot to implement something in core to do something
>> equivalent in a nicer (and unbounded) way?
>>
>> I say this hopefully, in the belief that it would make role design easier
>> and less error prone: you would only need to think about the simple case of
>> one instance.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> N
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