Yes, thanks I think that does help some. I think the part I'm missing
still is how to somehow pull in each file name one at a time. I know in
pseudo-code it's something like
for( one_filename in fileglob( vars/*.yml) {
- include_vars "{{ one_filename ))"
- debug: msg="{{ site_name }} on port {{ port }}"
}
I know you can't just do something like
- include_vars "{{ item }}"
with_fileglob:
- "vars/*.yml"
since that's going to just pull in the whole list immediately and print out
the results at the end.
On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 3:56:52 PM UTC-5, Alexander H. Laughlin
wrote:
>
> Have you considered conditional includes
> <http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_conditionals.html#applying-when-to-roles-and-includes>?
>
> Along with include_vars
> <http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/include_vars_module.html#include-vars-load-variables-from-files-dynamically-within-a-task>
>
> I think you should be able to achieve the desired effect.
>
> Something like the below:
>
> ---
>
> - name: include_vars example
>
> hosts: all
>
> tasks:
>
> - name: Debug hostname.
>
> debug:
>
> var: inventory_hostname
>
> # Different filenames with the same variables *should* override the
> variables for each instance of playbook execution.
>
> # But precedence is tricky and I've had trouble getting things like
> this to work in the past, so ymmv.
> - name: Include variables based on hostname.
>
> include_vars: "vars/{{ inventory_hostname }}.yml"
>
> - name: Print site name and port number.
> debug:
>
> msg: "My site {{ site_name }} is running on port {{ port_number
> }}."
>
> ...
>
> # vim: ft=ansible:
>
> Sorry if the formatting is a little wonky the code widget is a little
> weird sometimes.
>
> Hope this helps, best of luck.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 12:02:43 PM UTC-7, Nick Tkach wrote:
>>
>> So, the general idea is I've got a playbook that has a set of "property"
>> files (yaml format). Different filenames, but the variable names inside
>> are the same:
>>
>> group_vars/siteA.yml
>> ---
>> site_name: appA
>> port: 8080
>>
>> group_vars/siteB.yml
>> ---
>> site_name: appB
>> port: 8090
>>
>>
>>
>> and so on. I want to run a task that does work using each of those in
>> turn like
>>
>> - name: print out the value of site_name and port for each of the
>> group_vars files
>> debug: msg="My site {{ site_name }} is on port {{ port }}"
>>
>>
>>
>> So you'd expect output like
>>
>> My site appA is on port 8080
>> My site appB is on port 8090
>>
>> I'm not finding a way to get this result. You can't apply a
>> with_fileglob to a task block so I'm not sure how to do something to *both*
>> "reset" the variables (something like var_files?) *and* do some kind of
>> work with the values from *that* file. I'm assuming I'm missing something
>> about how to look at this?
>>
>
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