When you say depends, I assume you are meaning you are using playbook includes, so the provisioning playbook includes the "config" playbook?
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Cody Krieger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a couple of playbooks that depend on other playbooks in order to > eliminate as much repetition as possible. For example, one playbook is > responsible for basic server configuration, which is a dependency of other > playbooks whose goals are to deploy specific apps/services on top of this > base configuration. > > My current strategy looks something like this: > > - playbook b depends on playbook a > - playbook b has playbook a as a git submodule in vendor/a > - playbook b's site.yml includes vendor/a/site.yml before playbook b's > roles are declared, in order to make sure that playbook a runs first > > This sort of works, but it feels kind of janky. One of the biggest > downsides to this is that sub-playbooks don't have their group_vars > evaluated — only the top-level playbook's group_vars are evaluated. This > effectively means that anything defined in group_vars in any of the > sub-playbooks has to be copied up to the top-level playbook's group_vars. > > Is there a better way to handle this? > > Thanks, > Cody > > -- > 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/517119dc-48f6-4995-b7c8-5bbc4c8940c5%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/517119dc-48f6-4995-b7c8-5bbc4c8940c5%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%2BnsWgzeg_uhQpO%2BBmVpavq9HUc_t%3DZ3E56iZDyO40u77zKURA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
