Put it into the role's defaults (roles/foo/defaults/main.yml). Those
are the ones that are really meant to be overridden.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Matt Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a role defined with:
>
> - hosts: elk
>  sudo: true
>  vars:
>    es_heap: 8G
>
>
> I run that role against a given inventory that attempts to override that
> variable:
>
> [elk]
> node1 es_heap=2G
>
> [elk:vars]
> es_heap=2G
>
> Tried overriding with both host and group vars, but I keep getting the role
> variable.  Aren't the former supposed to override the latter?  I also tried
> moving the variable from the role in /vars/main.yml, but that had no effect.
> I must be missing something, because having host variable override role
> variable seems pretty basic.
>
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