You could also set it in a group variables file, for the staging or
production group.
-e overrides inventory scope, so could be used to replace the default.
Alternatively, keep the vars prompt and do this in the task section after
prompting for the variable I have named "prompted_variable", while setting
the default prompt in the vars_prompt to just ''.
- set_fact: actual_branch={{ prompted_variable |
default(variable_from_inventory) }}
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Jeremy Gailor <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I’m actually using a when: condition to see it’s passed on the command
> line first, but —extra-args feels very clunky for specifying a branch when
> you want to release, and it is often the case that you have a specific
> branch you need to run in a particular environment, usually for testing.
>
> - Jeremy
>
> From: Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> Reply: [email protected]
> <[email protected]>> <[email protected]>
> Date: August 27, 2014 at 1:14:05 PM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>>
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ansible-project] Inventory vars in a playbook
>
> vars_prompt variables aren't being expanded with inventory scoped
> variables, because the question is only going to be asked once. Therefore
> it's storing the literal string value.
>
> I really don't recommend relying on vars_prompt because playbooks really
> should be non-interative, "-e" extra variables also work a bit more nicely.
> You can still define defaults if the variables are not there using the "|
> default" Jinja2 function.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Jeremy Gailor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone explain to me if this just doesn't work or if I'm doing
>> something wrong;
>>
>> /production
>> [webapps:vars]
>> default_branch=master
>>
>> /staging
>> [webapps:vars]
>> default_branch=staging
>>
>> /my_playbook.yml
>> - hosts: webapps
>> vars_prompt:
>> - name: "release_branch"
>> prompt: "Deploy Branch:"
>> default: "{{default_branch}}"
>>
>>
>> Basically is just takes the text in 'default' verbatim (i.e. - no
>> substitution). Given how Ansible puts itself into the deployment process,
>> and how well that actually works, this is a really common use case that it
>> feels like should be supported.
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