While reading this URL I came across the following example:
- hosts: webservers
roles:
- common
- { role: foo_app_instance, dir: '/opt/a', port: 5000 }
- { role: foo_app_instance, dir: '/opt/b', port: 5001 }
Can anyone show me how would the "foo_app_instance" role look like ?
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 11:16:12 AM UTC+1, Dick Davies wrote:
>
> You can parameterise roles, maybe that would help.
> (http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html )
>
> Define all the group memberships in your accounts role
> (accounts/defaults/main.yml)
> and then in your inventory, load the accounts role into specific hosts
> with a list
> of the groups you want defined.
>
> On 12 August 2014 10:25, P <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
> > I would like to use ansible for our user management (I know there are
> > software for it like LDAP but not for now ...).
> > This is typical definition of users and their groups:
> >
> > Groups and users:
> >
> > group1
> >
> > user1
> > user2
> >
> > group2
> >
> > user1
> > user2
> > user3
> >
> > group3
> >
> > user1
> > user2
> > user3
> > user4
> >
> > The problem I have is that every server is going to have subset of all
> > groups, i.e:
> >
> > server1
> >
> > group1
> > group3
> >
> > server2
> >
> > group3
> >
> > server3
> >
> > group1
> >
> > Then there is a request from business/developers/managers/whatever that
> > particular group of users should have access to particular servers so we
> > need to modify ansible config and add e.g. group3 to server3.
> >
> > Is it possible to create a role with a sort of "map" file where I could
> > specify which server will have particular user groups
> > so we could modify this one (!) file, run site.yml and done (the role
> and
> > its file knows where to create each group).
> >
> > I would like to avoid redundancy in terms of user definitions (error
> prone)
> > and have just one file with all users defined in it.
> >
> > That way I could include this role in every playbook and it would
> > automatically create (or not) particular group of users
> > on every host.
> > Is it possible to do that ?
> >
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