I would gladly get some advice here.
First, Ansible is so great - I replaced my Puppet proviosning for our UNIX
hosts in a few days and everything is working so well and easy to maintain.
We support *AIX, HP-UX, Solaris* and *Linux *(*RedHat, Suse, Ubuntu*) so I
have a commands variance between OS and also between OS variants.
*Windows *clients support is so so so so asked around here (simple zip
extracting module, commands execution)
I use roles and at the moment I took all different shared roles parameters
and shell command paths into param files at playbooks/vars/AIX.yml,
HP-UX.yml and so...
For Linux - I have Linux.yml, Redhat_7.yml and Suse.yml for example as some
commands are different between RHEL 5-6, RHEL 7, Ubuntu and Suse and some
are the same.
In my playbook I use the vars_files feature as I found in the docs example
below to match for the specific OS version or OS type or Linux in general:
vars_files:
- "vars/common.yml"
- [ "vars/{{ ansible_os_family }}.yml", "vars/os_defaults.yml" ]
It works well but introduces duplication as the first matching file is
selected and I need the non different parameters inside this file too...
*First question*, in the above example, common.yml parameter X will get
overidden by {{ansible_os_family}}.yml defined parameter X?
*Second question*, I would like to separate parameters of OS commands to
one file, Application X to another and so...
I get a real big section of this vars_files that is very ugly to copy paste
for each playbook...
Can you suggest a better way to handle this please?
Thanks
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