Problem with Conditional Imports

[thomas....@berenberg.de]

Hello,

I have a problem with conditional variable imports. I am trying to set a variable based on operatingsystem release. For 'Solaris10' I want one value and for all others I want another another value.

In this example I have two servers:

$ ansible server1 -m setup | grep -E 'ansible_os_family|ansible_distribution_version'
        "ansible_distribution_version": "10",
        "ansible_os_family": "Solaris",
$ ansible server2 -m setup | grep -E 'ansible_os_family|ansible_distribution_version'
        "ansible_distribution_version": "11.2",
        "ansible_os_family": "Solaris",

I am trying to mimic the construct from this example: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_conditionals.html#conditional-imports

$ cat vars/defaults.yml
---
homeprefix: /blah


$ cat vars/Solaris10.yml
---
homeprefix: /export/home


$ cat debug.yml
---
- hosts: dbservere1:dbservere3
  vars_files:
    - [ "vars/{{ ansible_os_family }}{{ ansible_distribution_version}}.yml", "vars/defaults.yml" ]


  tasks:


  - debug: msg="vars/{{ ansible_os_family }}{{ ansible_distribution_version }}.yml"
  - debug: msg={{ homeprefix }}

I was now expecting to have "server1" import the file "vars/Solaris10.yml" and "server2" import the file "vars/defaults.yml" but instead both servers are importing the "vars/defaults.yml".

  

$ ansible-playbook debug.yml


PLAY [server1:server2] **************************************************


GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [server1]
ok: [server2]


TASK: [debug msg="vars/{{ ansible_os_family }}{{ ansible_distribution_version }}.yml"] ***
ok: [server1] => {
    "msg": "vars/Solaris10.yml"
}
ok: [server2] => {
    "msg": "vars/Solaris11.2.yml"
}


TASK: [debug msg={{ homeprefix }}] ********************************************
ok: [server1] => {
    "msg": "/blah"
}
ok: [server2] => {
    "msg": "/blah"
}


PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
server1                 : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0
server2                 : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

Can someone point me to my error?

Cheers,

Thomas

[Brian Coca]

what version of ansible are you using?

--
Brian Coca

[thomas....@berenberg.de]

Sorry, I am using Ansible 1.9.4 on CentOS 7.1.

/ Thomas

[Thomas Willert]

I havent managed to understand my problem but I have been able to use this workaround using the "include_vars" module instead:

---

- hosts: server1:server2

  tasks:

  - include_vars: "{{ item }}"

    with_first_found:

      - "vars/{{ ansible_os_family }}{{ ansible_distribution_version }}.yml"

      - "vars/defaults.yml"

  - debug: msg={{ homeprefix }}

/ Thomas