Well of course they get overwritten in the *same* play since all variables are *global* during the play execution, otherwise if you call group1 after group0 what will happen is group1 will get the variables from group0, which is not desirable, right?
What you need to do is rethink your playbooks and inventory structure, think of using multiple roles instead of single one with many tasks and keep the global variables names unique if you don't want them overwritten. On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 3:31:17 AM UTC+11, silverdr wrote: > > I /think/ I know where the problem comes from: I encountered it with group > vars defined in the inventory file. I eventually moved both the role > variables and group_vars into inventory file, trying to establish one place > where the variables are defined. Now: My inventory file looks like this (IPs are dummy): > > [group0] > 234.123.41.44 > [group0:vars] > var0=00 > var1=01 > > [group1] > 234.123.41.45 > [group1:vars] > var0=10 > var1=11 > > Now, in this configuration, variables have their values intact. But when I > refer with both groups to the same host, like: > > [group0] > 234.123.41.44 > [group0:vars] > var0=00 > var1=01 > > [group1] > 234.123.41.44 > [group1:vars] > var0=10 > var1=11 > > which I guess is rather typical when deploying to development environment, > then the group0 variables get overwritten! > > Since my configuration with "defaults" has been applied to similar > inventory, my best guess is that this caused the problem there too. Now - > what to do in order to have the variables keep their values for different > groups, even if the host happens to be the same? And shouldn't it be the > case anyway? -- 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/c74dc634-04fc-4380-8800-99b5978e649d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
