Ah this also works and is a bit shorter:
...
vars:
apt_defaults: &apt_defaults
cache_valid_time: 3600
install_recommends: no
update_cache: yes
...
- name: Install server and helper packages
apt: pkg={{item}}
args: *apt_defaults
with_items:
- ntp
- curl
- git
- patch
- htop
On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 5:30:49 PM UTC-5, Yvo wrote:
>
> 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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