We have proposed changing this to something much less likely to be clobbered.
If someone would like to file a ticket, or send a pull request to make this automagic use a variable like "ansible_environment_settings" or something, we'll definitely consider changing it. This has come up a handful of times, and while documented, it would be nice to not have the potential confusion. On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:53 AM, José Moreira <[email protected]> wrote: > Awesome, thank you! > > Terça-feira, 16 de Setembro de 2014 13:47:03 UTC+1, Matt Martz escreveu: >> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/f867236c-8e63-4790-9b3a- >>> ae5e0131c4bf%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f867236c-8e63-4790-9b3a-ae5e0131c4bf%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Matt Martz >> [email protected] >> http://sivel.net/ >> > -- > 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/43b95102-934a-40b0-b4a8-0c61550bc476%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/43b95102-934a-40b0-b4a8-0c61550bc476%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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/CA%2BnsWgx21HD%3DKoao8H8%2Bh--KDHOZKn01dh7XotwqrutRErSJrw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
