There is no case statement in ansible.

You can look into "group_by" when eliminating repeated conditionals if this
works for you.

- hosts: webservers
  tasks:
     - group_by: key=os-{{ ansible_os_family }}

- hosts:webservers:&os-Debian
  tasks:
      - ...

etc




On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Navid Paya <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all
> We have a mix of Debian and Redhat in our infrastructure so basically for
> every single step, I have to add two of the same operators for both of
> them, like this:
>
> - name: Install prerequisite packages
>   action: apt pkg={{item}} state=installed
>   with_items:
>     - sysstat
>   when: ansible_os_family == 'Debian'
>
> - name: Install prerequisite packages
>   action: yum pkg={{item}} state=installed
>   with_items:
>     - sysstat
>   when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'
>
> Does Ansible have an operator similar to the case operator in Ruby or 
> Chef<http://docs.opscode.com/chef/dsl_recipe.html#case-statements>and Puppet 
> for that matter?
>
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