Thing is that I wanted to point out if I tag my roles, and run a play, is
it intended to inherit vars from a role that is not in that particular play
although it exists in playbook, but it is excluded in particular run
because of tags.


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Defaults load into inventory scope.
>
> What I said applies to things in vars/
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Marko_Lisica <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> That is 100% clear. But in this case one role does not have its own
>> defaults and inherits defaults from the last role in a list regardles if
>> that role is played or not.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> It's entirely intended.  For instance, you might have a role that
>>> applies a particular configuration to machines that live in a particular
>>> datacenter, and one of the things that sets might be the port to use for
>>> the database
>>> server.  That port variable would then be available to other roles.
>>>
>>> While this sounds scary at first, Ansible contains safeguards to make
>>> sure the variables used in one role are absolutely used there and not
>>> clobbered by another.  Thus they have guaranteed scope to that role.
>>>
>>> As such, if you define a variable "port" in two places, each role is
>>> guaranteed to be able to read the local value.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Marko Lisica <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I stumbled onto little mind game with ansible today : D .
>>>>
>>>> I have three roles that are tagged.
>>>>
>>>> - hosts: vagrant
>>>>>   sudo: yes
>>>>>   roles:
>>>>>     - {role: ansible_users, tags: users}
>>>>>     - {role: ansible_nginx, tags: nginx}
>>>>>     - {role: ansible_mysql, tags: mysql}
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have defaults/main.yml for "ansible_users" and "ansible_mysql" in
>>>> their respective places.
>>>>
>>>> This is "ansible_users" defaults:
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>> users:
>>>>>   - user: detlic
>>>>>     webdir:
>>>>>       - woodpecker
>>>>>       - aligator
>>>>>   - user: keder
>>>>>     webdir: []
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is "ansible_mysql" defaults:
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>> users:
>>>>>   - user: detlic
>>>>>     db:
>>>>>       - aligatordb
>>>>>       - woodpeckerdb
>>>>>   - user: jazavac
>>>>>     db:
>>>>>       - badgerdb
>>>>>       - ddaybdb
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have left NGINX role without "defaults". How I understand things is
>>>> that NGINX will inherit "defaults" vars from other roles and use them where
>>>> it can. But in this case {{ VARS }} are named the same in both USER and
>>>> MYSQL roles.
>>>>
>>>> NGINX role is before MYSQL from whoom it should inherit vars? In my
>>>> test case it inherits it from the LAST role in the list. So in this case it
>>>> is MYSQL. If I remove MYSQL role from a list then everything is fine.
>>>>
>>>> Another thing is if I leave MYSQL role present BUT use TAGS and play
>>>> roles with jsut USERS and NGINX tags, still NGINX inherits "defaults" from
>>>> MYSQL.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone comment on this.
>>>>
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