This might provide some inspiration, where a vars file is templated and
then included allowing dynamic variable names and values.
I think it would be 'more elegant' to build up an in memory YAML/JSON as
opposed to creating a file - but haven't got a good example - so hope this
helps! and it may prompt some 'better' suggestions! ; )
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/X1Q93QOk6Ew/ZygP5rXmfEkJ
On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 12:49:13 AM UTC+1, Frank Perks wrote:
>
> I am trying to shrink ~30+ roles into a single role to drastically reduce
> the amount of duplicate and copy and pasted code into a single nice and
> neat role. One of the problems is each role sets a specifically named fact
> basically like:
>
> ec2_<appname>_foo
>
> What i want to do is this:
>
> set_fact:
> "{{ some var }}" : "{{ some value }}"
>
> The problem is that i can't seem to figure out how to do this. Now i know
> i could simply on the playbook task, copy the value into its corresponding
> var through set_fact. However a lot of the roles are run one after another,
> so that doesn't really work.
>
> I was thinking i could just setup redis and push the fact there
> temporarily, however that seems like a lot of work.
>
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