Getting variables defined in group_vars

[Ivan Kurnosov]

Hi,

is it possible to retrieve variables defined per host with all group_vars and host_vars definitions applied?

The case:

let's say we have a task to configure an haproxy instance.

In its config file template we iterate over servers in the `webserver` group and need to retrieve the `httpd_port` variable that might be defined in either some of `group_vars` or `host_vars`.

So for a particular server it might be a specific setting in `host_vars/hostname` or a generic one from `group_vars/webserver`

How would you resolve it?

[Brian Coca]

These will all be merged in, so you'll have httpd_port available as
the result of that merge. host vars will overrite group vars so this
should work as you want it.


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Brian Coca

[jack.ma...@gmail.com]

Use the debug module and print out the value of httpd_port when running over some or all of your servers. You can do this with an ad-hoc command like:

ansible all -m debug -a 'msg="Port is {{ httpd_port }}"'