The variable name "environment" is a reserved variable name and used as
described at http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_environment.html

You should use something such as "env" or "environ" instead.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:36 AM, José Moreira <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> my company (me) recently started using Ansible (1.7.1) for multi-stage
> server provisioning (both on local vagrant and ec2). Even though i haven't
> utilized the variable much, i have defined:
>
> environment: production
>
> on the environment specific group_vars file; its value can be
> "development", "production", "staging", etc. In the same group_vars file,
> for provisioning Postgresql databases i am utilizing the "ANXS.postgresql"
> Galaxy module and defining databases in variables as well:
>
> postgresql_databases:
>   - name: app_production
>     hstore: yes
>     uuid_ossp: no
>
> I had initially planned to suffix the environment variable in the database
> name (not only on databases but other sections of the playbooks) :
>
> postgresql_databases:
>   - name: app_{{ environment }}
>     hstore: yes
>     uuid_ossp: no
>
> but the resulting database name after substitution becomes "app_{}" and i
> believe it is related, but not only, to the database task using with_items:
>
> - name: PostgreSQL | Make sure the PostgreSQL databases are present
>   postgresql_db:
>     name: "{{item.name}}"
>     encoding: "{{postgresql_encoding}}"
>     lc_collate: "{{postgresql_locale}}"
>     lc_ctype: "{{postgresql_locale}}"
>     template: "template0"
>     state: present
>   with_items: postgresql_databases
>   when: postgresql_databases|length > 0
>
> Is it possible to use this substitution pattern (utilizing variables with
> other variables in its value as a list value), or am i just using the wrong
> pattern and just use explicit names (name_X instead of name_{{ var1 }}) ?
>
> Thank you
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