On Aug 7, 2014, at 10:18 AM, Jesse Keating <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got a situation where I'm applying roles to a system locally, much in > the style of ansible-pull. The role has a number of defaults, but I wish to > override those defaults with custom details specific to this particular > environment. My wish is to provide those overrides via an external file to > the role, something we can iterate on without having to change the role code > itself (as it is distributed through a different method). > > I'm looking for ideas on how to make this work. I had originally thought to > make use of ansible local facts, in /etc/ansible/facts.d/*.fact files However > that results in variables named ansible.local.<filename>.<blockname>.<key> > which obviously cannot override a role default as-is. > > Any thoughts you all might have would be appreciated! > > -jlk
and having just sent this, I remembered about include_vars, which I could put in my role's entry point to load variables from an external file. That would likely work, but I'm still curious how others would solve this issue. -jlk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/FD0976BA-5969-42F4-B0C4-8850AD5325C2%40j2solutions.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
