Sorry, I should also mention that I'm on the devel branch. I tried it using
stable-2.0 but it did the same thing.
On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 1:49:28 PM UTC-8, Guy Knights wrote:
>
> I have a variable defined in group_vars that I'm trying to use in a task
> but it is failing for me. So I created a debug task to dump the contents of
> this variable so I can see what ansible thinks is defined. If I try the
> following:
>
> - debug: var=mysql
>
> It outputs "mysql": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!". I changed the above debug
> task to:
>
> - debug: var=hostvars[inventory_hostname]['mysql']
>
> When I run it with the change above I get instead:
>
> "hostvars[inventory_hostname]['mysql']": {
> "dbs": [
> {
> "backup": {
> "retention": 3,
> "window": "06:00-06:30"
> },
> "name": "db1",
> "size": 100,
> "type": "rds",
> "users": [
> {
> "host": "127.0.0.1",
> "name": "db1user",
> "password": "userpass",
> "privs": [
> "db1.*:ALL"
> ]
> }
> ]
> },
> {
> "name": "db2",
> "type": "mysql",
> "users": [
> {
> "host": "127.0.0.1",
> "name": "root",
> "password": "testpass",
> "privs": [
> "*.*:ALL"
> ]
> },
> {
> "host": "::1",
> "name": "root",
> "password": "testpass",
> "privs": [
> "*.*:ALL"
> ]
> },
> {
> "host": "localhost",
> "name": "root",
> "password": "testpass",
> "privs": [
> "*.*:ALL"
> ]
> },
> {
> "host": "{{
> hostvars[inventory_hostname][ansible_hostname] }}",
> "name": "root",
> "password": "testpass",
> "privs": [
> "*.*:ALL"
> ]
> },
> {
> "host": "127.0.0.1",
> "name": "db2user",
> "password": "userpass",
> "privs": [
> "db2.*:ALL"
> ]
> }
> ]
> },
> {
> "name": "db3",
> "type": "mysql",
> "users": [
> {
> "host": "127.0.0.1",
> "name": "root",
> "password": "testpass",
> "privs": [
> "*.*:ALL"
> ]
> },
> {
> "host": "::1",
> "name": "root",
> "password": "testpass",
> "privs": [
> "*.*:ALL"
> ]
> },
> {
> "host": "localhost",
> "name": "root",
> "password": "testpass",
> "privs": [
> "*.*:ALL"
> ]
> },
> {
> "host": "{{
> hostvars[inventory_hostname][ansible_hostname] }}",
> "name": "root",
> "password": "testpass",
> "privs": [
> "*.*:ALL"
> ]
> },
> {
> "host": "127.0.0.1",
> "name": "db3user",
> "password": "userpass",
> "privs": [
> "db3.*:ALL"
> ]
> }
> ]
> }
> ]
> }
>
> So, it works when I reference the var from the hostvars, but when I
> reference it as a standalone variable it doesn't. I also checked with some
> other vars that are defined in the exact same way within my group_vars, and
> they output fine whichever method I use.
>
> What's the issue here? Am I missing something?
>
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