include_vars is your friend.
For instance in tasks/main.yml you can say..
- include_vars: RedHat6.yml
when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_lsb.major_release == "6"
- include_vars: RedHat7.yml
when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_lsb.major_release == "7"
On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 10:54:25 AM UTC-7, ZillaYT wrote:
>
> Having a lot of -name/when task blocks is just ugly infrastructure. I have
> to think of a better way. There's GOT to be a better way.
>
> On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 1:45:02 PM UTC-4, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>>
>> On 01. sep. 2016 18:02, ZillaYT wrote:
>> > I'm writing a role to configure syslog, and of course the service is
>> > different between Linux instances. How do I do this in var/main.yml?
>>
>> The directory must be vars not var.
>>
>>
>> > # pseudo-code in vars/main.yml
>> > if Redhat7.x
>> > syslog_service: rsyslog
>> > else if RedHat6.x
>> > syslog_service: syslog
>> > end
>>
>> It's not possible, vars/main.yml can only contain variable definitions,
>> not logic.
>>
>>
>> > So then I can just do this in tasks/main.yml
>> >
>> > - name: Ensure syslog is running
>> > service: name="{{ syslog_service }}" state=running enabled=yes
>>
>> You must split it in two tasks.
>> ansible_os_family and ansible_lsb.major_release values is probably wrong
>> so you need to find the correct ones.
>>
>> - name: Ensure syslog is running on Redhat 6.x
>> service: name=syslog state=running enabled=yes
>> when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_lsb.major_release ==
>> "6"
>>
>> - name: Ensure syslog is running on Redhat 7.x
>> service: name=rsyslog state=running enabled=yes
>> when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_lsb.major_release ==
>> "7"
>>
>> --
>> Kai Stian Olstad
>>
>
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