This is related to my last email (subject: support passing new variables directly to the template module, but not only), and issues #8733 and #4546
On 2 September 2014 07:27, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to set values for variable per task. Is it possible at all in > Ansible? > I have this template: > > <VirtualHost *:80> > DocumentRoot /var/www/{{name}} > ServerName {{name}}{{domain}} > </VirtualHost> > > And I want to call it with specific name and domain parameter without > modifying the template. > I tried this: > > - template: dest=/etc/apache2/sites-available/{{ item }} > src=templates/virtualhost.j2 > with_items: > - sitename > > But this syntax is not good, because it requires to rewrite template to use > {{ item }}. > Is it possible to avoid that? > > I tried moving the task into separate playbook and invoke it as parametrized > include. > > - include: roles/web/tasks/virtualhost-add.yml name=sitename > domain=example.com > > This works until I add a loop with_items. > > - include: roles/web/tasks/virtualhost-add.yml name={{item}} > domain=example.com > with_items: > - sitename > > Now Ansible fails with: > > ERROR: [DEPRECATED]: include + with_items is a removed deprecated feature. > Please update your playbooks. > > So, is that at all possible and what is the current best practice for > templating files in a loop? I thought that the most simple way is to add > some variables_override parameter to template module. > > -- > 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/dcb5622e-dfd2-4d8d-888c-7dc4b673ed6e%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/CAHHcNodO3BKzUzZ53h6yFMtFG2wqcP7GDQLOgnsD0Gsnhz86tQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
