You make an variable mandatory to throw an error if a var is not defined:
- hosts:
vars:
var_required_by_role:
- name: "{{ variable | mandatory }}"
user: "foo"
roles:
- myrole
Alternatively you can edit ansible.cfg to change this setting to True
error_on_undefined_vars = False
On Monday, September 14, 2015 at 8:20:07 AM UTC-4, Andrew Wade wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> (I'm using Ansible 1.9.2)
>
> I've got a playbook like this:
>
> - hosts:
> vars:
> var_required_by_role:
> - name: "{{ variable }}"
> user: "foo"
> roles:
> - myrole
>
>
> My issue is that no error is raised if 'variable' is undefined; Ansible
> outputs a changed line like:
>
> => ... 'name': u'{# variable #}'
>
> I'm constructing a more complex variable form a simple value passed in
> with -e and I don't want to define the complex variable on the command line.
>
> Is there a better way to do this, or to force error checking? I tried the
> mandatory filter, but I don't think it gets parsed.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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