I'm afraid that doesn't work either, same error message.
I even tried 'with_first_found:' with a bunch of static values (to verify
that it's not variable dereferencing which doesn't work in the loop)
However no matter what I feed it, it always returns '"item": null".
Op donderdag 18 september 2014 17:39:30 UTC+2 schreef James Cammarata:
>
> 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]
> <javascript:>> 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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