Re: [ansible-project] roles - apply variable values from /defaults/main.yml

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 20/01/2022 19:47, dulhaver via Ansible Project wrote:

so, that is a clear yes (and great little exercise) then.
I'll have to figure out, why it does't work atm

thx for sharing

Well to get help you need to elaborate on "why it does't work atm".

The variables in defaults/main.yml do have very low priority BTW.

Regards

              Racke

On 01/20/2022 5:39 PM Vladimir Botka <vbo...@gmail.com> wrote:


dulhaver via Ansible Project <ansible-project@googlegroups.com> wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:15:42 +0100 (CET)

As far my understanding goes the /tasks/main.yml should read the variables from 
/defaults/main.yml no matter what (without any vars_files: declaration. Is that 
understanding correct?

Yes. This is correct. For example

shell> tree roles
roles
└── role01
     ├── defaults
     │   └── main.yml
     └── tasks
         └── main.yml

3 directories, 2 files

shell> cat roles/role01/defaults/main.yml
test_var: Hello

shell> cat roles/role01/tasks/main.yml
- debug:
     var: test_var

shell> cat playbook.yml
- hosts: localhost
   roles:
     - role01

shell> ansible-playbook playbook.yml

gives (abridged)

TASK [role01 : debug]
**********************************
ok: [localhost] =>
   test_var: Hello


If this is not working for you provide "Minimal nonworking example"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_working_example

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