Passing variables into files for syncing

[Colin Byrne]

Hey, so I have a number of essentially identical development servers which have a set of mostly-identical config files. In the config files are small configuration differences for each server, usually a differing API key or a differing host name, which will need to persist for the life of the file. I would love to use ansible to sync the identical portions of the config files, but am looking for a way to also keep the differing portions separate. Is there a way to pass in the server-specific vars as I sync the config files? Any other ideas? Sincere thanks for any help!

[David Karban]

Hi Colin, 

look at group_vars and host_vars directories: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_inventory.html

Most of the settings will be in group_vars and whenever you will need different api key, or anything, you can add it to host_vars/ directory for that one host.

Regards

David
Linux server specialist/Specialista na správu linuxových serverů
www.karban.eu

2015-12-17 9:39 GMT+01:00 Colin Byrne <coby...@gmail.com>:

Hey, so I have a number of essentially identical development servers which have a set of mostly-identical config files. In the config files are small configuration differences for each server, usually a differing API key or a differing host name, which will need to persist for the life of the file. I would love to use ansible to sync the identical portions of the config files, but am looking for a way to also keep the differing portions separate. Is there a way to pass in the server-specific vars as I sync the config files? Any other ideas? Sincere thanks for any help!

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