Re: [ansible-project] Ansible -Calling a playbook inside a playbook with vars_prompt giving error : ERROR: vars_prompt is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler

[Michael DeHaan]

Looks like you are missing a tasks section and also have some indent issues.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Imran Khan <khan.im...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a tikitaka3.yml (main yml file) and a tikitaka3a.yml (playbook to be included) . When I prompt the user for a variable and then in the tasks section when I call it, like so

---
- hosts: all

 vars:
   khan:

  vars_prompt:
- name: targetenv
  prompt: "Select group to modify 1.)EPC 2.)CLIENTS 3)TESTERS"
  private: False
  default: "1"


- name: Inlude playbook tikitaka3a
  include: /home/khan/Desktop/playbooks/tikitaka3a.yml target=targetenv
  when: targetenv.stdout|int < 2 #this condition does not work, explained below
  #when: targetenv == 1 or "1" #this doesn't work either

- name: Debugging
  debug: var=targetenv.stdout

I get this error when I run the playbook "ERROR: vars_prompt is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler"

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[Imran Khan]

Thanks for the quick reply. I fixed those issue, but the main problem remains. The if condition is not evaluated. 

P.S: I am going off topic here, but is there any way for me to place a when condition on a complete playbook or say for the first 10 tasks in a playbook etc?

[Michael DeHaan]

On the first part, can you show your new playbook and the output?

As to your question, yes.

- hosts: all

  tasks:

     - group_by: key=test-{{ a > b }}

- hosts: test-True

  tasks: # or roles, here, etc

     - ping

- hosts: tests-False

  tasks:
     - ping

The group_by module basically carves up hosts based on arbitrary criteria, creating dynamic groups that are very useful for this sort of thing.

http://docs.ansible.com/group_by_module.html

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[Imran Khan]

Thanks mate, I'll give this a try!