On 2 February 2015 at 12:52, Tom Bamford <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Tom,
> Jinja templating doesn’t work in playbooks in that way. Lots of variable
> constructs are actually parsed with jinja2, so you can do stuff like
>
> - set_fact:
> myvar: "{% if something %}this{% else %}that{% endif %}"
>
> As Giovanni mentioned, there are numerous looping constructs for things
> like task repetition. Playbooks are declarative, so it wouldn’t really be
> right to build them from a template.
>
I understand this, and it is exactly what I am trying to discuss here. Why
can't one build a playbook from a template? I think plain YAML is just fine
for declarative statements. Or am I missing a use case?
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