Just for reference, this is what I ended up doing:
1. in my play, I created separate vars files for each site, these
correspond to the current host's group membership:
- include_vars: "{{ item }}"
with_first_found:
- "db_{{ autogroup2 }}.yml"
2. in each var file I used the following structure:
---
databases:
-
name: "DB1"
primary: "Server1"
secondaries: null
-
name: "DB2"
primary: "Server1"
secondaries: null
3. this allowed me to access for example each db's name like so:
- name: print stufs
debug: msg="{{ item }}.name"
with_items: databases
On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 12:38:59 AM UTC+2, Trond Hindenes wrote:
>
> hm, maybe I'd be better off splitting the different location vars into
> separate files, and then use
>
> with_first_found
>
> I could then loop over group_names until the node found a valid variable
> file.
>
>
> On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 12:25:14 AM UTC+2, Trond Hindenes wrote:
>>
>> THanks Brian. I can't seem to get this working. I can access the
>> individual items using indexing
>> (this works:
>> - set_fact: mybackend="{{ db[0] }}"
>> )
>> But I can't for the life of me figure out how to access by "item name"
>> (or if that's even a valid thing in yaml). I can obviously redo the way I
>> format the contents of my variable file, but I can't seem to strike gold.
>> Struggling to find a good example of this in the docs/examples.
>>
>> On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 12:12:43 AM UTC+2, Brian Coca wrote:
>>>
>>> set_fact:
>>> mybackend="{{hostvars[inventory_hostname]['db'][varwithbackendnumber]}}"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brian Coca
>>>
>>
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