Your example has a small syntax error, pkg should be nested under args.
This works:
...
vars:
apt_defaults: &apt_defaults
cache_valid_time: 3600
install_recommends: no
update_cache: yes
...
- name: Install server and helper packages
apt:
args:
<<: *apt_defaults
pkg: '{{item}}'
with_items:
- ntp
- curl
- git
- patch
- htop
I'm going to play around with it, see if I can move the defaults back to
group_vars.
On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 5:14:09 PM UTC-5, Yvo wrote:
>
> Brian, thank you for that workaround.
>
> Your solution however forces `pkg` as a separate argument on a new line.
> How would I supply `install_recommends` to that (specific) task? This for
> example doesn't work:
>
> ...
>
> - apt:
> <<: *apt_defaults
> pkg: "{{item}}"
> install_recommends: yes
>
> It would be nice if it was possible to simply set defaults for tasks.
> Something like:
>
> defaults:
> apt:
> cache_valid_time: 3600
>
> And then allowing these defaults to be overridden by the actual task.
> Even better if you could specify these defaults in the group_vars.
>
>
> On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 11:42:02 AM UTC-5, Brian Coca wrote:
>>
>> in both versions you can still solve this by using YAML references
>>
>> vars:
>> apt_defaults: &apt_defaults
>> ...
>>
>> - apt:
>> <<: *apt_defaults
>> pkg: "{{item}}"
>> ...
>>
>>
>> ----------
>> Brian Coca
>>
>
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