ansible variables for each os

[Kathy L]

In our playbooks, we used to load one OS-specific vars file for all our roles. Now we'd like to move the variables into each role.  A method I had to do this before does not seem to be working.  For our auditd role, in the vars/main.yml file I have this:

auditd_pkg:
  CentOS: audit
  Rocky: audit
  Debian: auditd
  Ubuntu: auditd

But it gives me this error:

argument 'package' is of type <class dict> and we were unable to convert to list:

How else can I list these variables without having specific os-related files in each role?

[Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)]

You need use the ansible_os_family fact as a key into your auditd_pkg dictionary.

{{ auditd_pkg[ansible_os_family] }}

Walter
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[Kathy L]

That works,  thanks!

[Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)]

If you think of it as a JSON dictionary this might explain why you had to do that.

This format ...

auditd_pkg:
  CentOS: audit
  Rocky: audit
  Debian: auditd
  Ubuntu: auditd

... is effectively the same as ...

auditd_pkg: { "CentOS": "audit", "Rocky": "audit", "Debian": "auditd", "Ubuntu": "auditd" }

Just helping ..

Walter
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Infrastructure Services, OISM
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