Ah thanks, that makes more sense. I’m not sure why I’d ever want to use vars/ then. Sure I could be convinced of a use-case, but it seems much more natural for inventory/group/host vars to override anything defined in a role, but I see this discussion has taken place before. :)
On December 3, 2014 at 5:54:20 PM, Michael Peters ([email protected]) wrote: 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. > > -- > 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/12a0601b-3d75-40c3-8c1c-3c7476cbcf82%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/63PKx3Lxb4U/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/CAJQqANfj0tOgaFU8rzojYNOCK6W%2B%3DYZxSDqVXwy2UO7M%3D4q_Qg%40mail.gmail.com. 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/etPan.547f94e8.7545e146.174f%40Matthews-MacBook-Pro.local. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
