I believe with_first_found only searches for files at the moment, it does
not look in templates or vars files for this, so you'd have to give it a
relative path from the main.yml you're using it in. For example, assuming
this is from tasks/main.yml, you would use:
with_first_found:
- "../vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml"
- "../vars/{{ ansible_os_family }}.yml"
- "../vars/default.yml"
You could skip the last line too, and just have the defaults stored in
defaults/main.yml too, and have a "when: item is not None" as a conditional
on the include_vars.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Nico K. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, I was trying to do the following (which pretty much comes straight
> from the manual) but I can't get it to work:
>
> (This is within a role)
>
> # Load a variable file based on the OS type, or a default if not found.
> - include_vars: "{{ item }}"
> with_first_found:
> - "{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml"
> - "{{ ansible_os_family }}.yml"
> - "default.yml"
>
> result: failed: [hostname] => {"failed": true, "item": null}
>
> I don't see how 'item' is ever going to be 'null' at this point...
>
>
>
> Op donderdag 18 september 2014 15:54:26 UTC+2 schreef James Cammarata:
>>
>> Hi Nico,
>>
>> One common way to do this is to use the group_by module to make groups
>> based on the distribution variable, and then to use individual plays to
>> target those groups.
>>
>> When doing this in a role, you can use include: or include_vars: to bring
>> in task or vars files based on the distribution variable instead.
>>
>> We have a few examples of this in our integration tests, and in the Tower
>> installation playbook.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Nico K. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Given a wide-range of distribution versions how does one abstract away
>>> the differences?
>>> For example I have to deal with all Ubuntu versions between 10.04 =>
>>> 14.04, there are differences such as '/etc/dhcp' vs '/etc/dhcp3' and so on.
>>> The 'group_by' statement here doesn't really help since that would
>>> result in having to create ~8 configurations.
>>>
>>> What I would like to do is in an existing group_vars file say:
>>>
>>> dhcp_dir: /etc/dhcp3
>>> when: ansible_distribution_version|compare .. otherwise ..
>>>
>>> Or otherwise do something like this in a task? Perhaps using 'set_fact'?
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Nico
>>>
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