I have perused your reply but can't dig into it right at the moment. I will get back to it. Hopefully others also will chime in.
Walter -- Walter Rowe, Division Chief Infrastructure Services, OISM Mobile: 202.355.4123 On Nov 10, 2022, at 12:28 PM, Christopher Bachmeyer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Initially, I set up the Ansible Playbook outside of using a role, a plays/, vars/, group_vars/, and collections/ directories. Yes, the network and vc_locations were being passed in as extra_vars in Anbible Tower via a Survey. As things have grown, I recently converted that work over to an Ansible role. The conversion worked well and things run accordingly through Ansible Tower. The site.yml is what is used including the vars_files sans the second role. Now I am working on including the second role for post-processing needs of the deployed vms. Yes, the vmware-windows role needs variables defined for the vcenter, vlans, etc. Currently, I have multiple ymls built out holding the vars such as: vlan1.yml, vlan2.yml, etc. vcenter1.yml, vcenter2.yml, etc. Doing it like this, I can have a prompt in the Survey for the Admins to customize the deployment. I think I am following you, I can move those yml files over to tasks/ in the first role. I did indent the second role, having to remove the hyphen from "name." In doing so, I received two warning: "[WARNING]: While constructing a mapping from /tmp/bwrap_ ... /project/vmware-windows- role/provision.yml, line 3, column 3, found a duplicate dict key (name). Using last defined value only # Windows would be the inventory for the second role [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: windows Thanks! On Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 8:26:41 AM UTC-7 [email protected]<http://nist.gov> wrote: Does the vmware-windows role need the vars defined from the vars_files? If so then the role itself should include them inside it's task file(s). Move the vars_files inside tasks/main.yml. Anything the role does after that will get the value of those vars definitions. The vmware-windows role will see the values of network and vc_location that come into the playbook executing the role. I presume they come in as extra_vars from command line or ansible tower. Walter -- Walter Rowe, Division Chief Infrastructure Services, OISM Mobile: 202.355.4123<tel:(202)%20355-4123> On Nov 10, 2022, at 9:54 AM, Christopher Bachmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Walter, That is correct. I am, the vmware-windows role is the first play and creates the host_group "windows" to be used as inventory in the second play. Right now, the second role is not indented but let me give that a go this morning. I'm presuming to indent the entire block starting with the hyphen ( - name: .... )? Regarding the vars_files, use import statements in the vars/main.yml of the first role? I have multiple vars files under vars/ that are specific to the vcenters and vlans. Using vars_files and variables in the Ansible Tower Survey gives the Admins a way to customize the builds to the environment (which works well!). Thank you! On Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 5:23:04 AM UTC-7 [email protected]<http://nist.gov/> wrote: You need to make sure you use proper indentation. Your roles list needs to be indented two spaces like your vars_files. Is it possible also that your sourcing of those the vars_files from within your role is overwriting the value of "windows" such that there is no inventory for the second play? Why do you source those vars files? The vmware-windows role will do that automatically. - name: VMware-windows create role hosts: localhost gather_facts: no roles: - vmware-windows ### this vars_files should not be needed vars_files: - ./roles/vmware-windows/vars/{{ vc_location }}.yml - ./roles/vmware-windows/vars/{{ network }}.yml - name: Windows-post role hosts: windows gather_facts: no roles: - windows-post I presume that your vmware-windows role in the first play creates the host group called "windows" that you use as the inventory in your second play? Walter -- Walter Rowe, Division Chief Infrastructure Services, OISM Mobile: 202.355.4123<tel:(202)%20355-4123> On Nov 9, 2022, at 5:30 PM, Christopher Bachmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: Hey all, I have two roles that are included in my site.yml and the goal is to execute the second role as soon as the first role completes. I have added a task to generate a dynamic inventory in the first role that the second role can use. I have a job Template in Ansible Tower and the first role executes cleanly but job Template completes without the second role executing. What am I missing? - name: VMware-windows create role hosts: localhost gather_facts: no roles: - vmware-windows vars_files: - ./roles/vmware-windows/vars/{{ vc_location }}.yml - ./roles/vmware-windows/vars/{{ network }}.yml - name: Windows-post role hosts: windows gather_facts: no roles: - windows-post Thanks! -- 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]. 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