Hi, A problem I have often encountered when writing Ansible Roles is that the precedence level of "vars" prevents overriding them - in group_vars, inventory, etc.
Perhaps this can be a solution, a set_fact task which converts selected Role Variables into Default Variables: https://www.samdarwin.com/ansible-default-vars/ Let me know your feedback or if you see any technical problems. Hopefully this will be useful for everyone who is composing Ansible Roles. You might propose that if a role variable is going to be overridden, then it should just be set as a "default" in role/defaults/main.yml. Yes, that is fine for many common situations. However, include_vars does not work for defaults, only vars. There is no include_defaults. And why do you need that? It would allow for conditional logic such as per operating system settings. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/67e514b0-995d-4c69-b51c-fb2905832ad5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
