Something Similar to Ruby's Case Operator

[Navid Paya]

Hi all

We have a mix of Debian and Redhat in our infrastructure so basically for every single step, I have to add two of the same operators for both of them, like this:

- name: Install prerequisite packages

  action: apt pkg={{item}} state=installed

  with_items:

    - sysstat

  when: ansible_os_family == 'Debian'

- name: Install prerequisite packages

  action: yum pkg={{item}} state=installed

  with_items:

    - sysstat

  when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'

Does Ansible have an operator similar to the case operator in Ruby or Chef and Puppet for that matter?

[Michael DeHaan]

There is no case statement in ansible.

You can look into "group_by" when eliminating repeated conditionals if this works for you.

- hosts: webservers

  tasks:

     - group_by: key=os-{{ ansible_os_family }}

- hosts:webservers:&os-Debian

  tasks:

      - ...

etc

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