Hello,
That construct actually makes sense to me. The fact of Development vs.
Production is controlled by their network. We can just create custom fact
based on each host IP address, and return customer fact variable. Then we
can set nfs_server per that custom fact.
Thanks for showing this tip.
- Xinhuan
On Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 6:23:27 AM UTC-4, Srinivas Naram wrote:
>
> There could be some distinction between both the environments. Can you use
> gather_facts and get the differentiating value ?
>
> if you are able to get it using gather_facts, you can use set_facts
>
> Example
>
> set_facts:
>nfs_server: xyx
> when: ansible_distribution= 'CentOS'
>
> set_fact:
>nfs_server: abc
> when: ansible_distribution ='Ubuntu'
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 12:26 AM Xinhuan Zheng > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to define a variable for playbook in *group_vars/server_genre*
>> file. However, I don't know if Ansible can support something like
>> server_genre@environment syntax notation. Here is the detail:
>>
>> *In inventory/environment*:
>> ---
>> [server_genre]
>> myserver1.example.com
>>
>> *In group_vars/server_genre:*
>> ---
>> nfs_server: mynfsserver1.example.com
>>
>> *In server_genre.yml playbook:*
>> ---
>> - name: Playbook for server_genre
>> hosts: server_genre
>> gather_facts: yes
>>
>> tasks:
>>
>> - name: Install Nfs client
>> package:
>> name: nfs-utils
>> state: present
>> - name: mount nfs
>> mount:
>> path: /mymount
>> src: "{{ nfs_server }}"
>> fstype: nfs
>> opts: ro
>> state: mounted
>>
>> In a different environment, the variable {{ nfs_server }} will have
>> different value, however, I can't separate the different values using one
>> single group_var/server_genre file, unless Ansible supports something like
>> group_vars/server_genre@enviornment.
>>
>> How do I accomplish the variable value distinction in my case?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Xinhuan
>>
>>
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