Pick a variable based on if another variable is set

[John Simmons]

I want to add a var of testing to my playbook, and when that var is set to true i want var1 to be used but if its nor set to true, i want it to use var2. Is this possible?

below is a non working example but  I hope it illustrates what i want it to do.

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- name: Check logs and report to slack

  hosts: 

  become: yes

  remote_user: "{{ platform_user }}"

  vars:

    testing: true

  vars_files:

    - "../../vault/slack.yml"

  tasks:

    - name: check logs for step took

      shell: "some command"

      register: command_output

    - name: sucess notification message via Slack

      slack:

        token: "{% if {{ testing }} == 'true' %}{{ slack_slacktesting }}{% else %}{{ slack_devops }}{% endif %}"

        msg: "*{ command_output.stdout }}"

        channel: "{% if {{ testing }} == 'true' %}#slacktesting{% else %}#devops{% endif %}"

        username: 'Ansible'

        link_names: 0

        parse: 'full'

        color: 'good'

      delegate_to: localhost

      when: command_output_completed.stdout | search("COMPLETED")

      ignore_errors: yes

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Hope you can help or at least point me in the right direction.

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 24.04.2019 21:02, John Simmons wrote:
> I want to add a var of testing to my playbook, and when that var is set to
> true i want var1 to be used but if its nor set to true, i want it to use
> var2. Is this possible?
>
> below is a non working example but I hope it illustrates what i want it to
> do.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> - name: Check logs and report to slack
> hosts:
> become: yes
> remote_user: "{{ platform_user }}"
>

> * vars:*
> * testing: true*

>
> vars_files:
> - "../../vault/slack.yml"
>
> tasks:
>
> - name: check logs for step took
> shell: "some command"
> register: command_output
>
> - name: sucess notification message via Slack
> slack:

> token: *"{% if {{ testing }} == 'true' %}{{ slack_slacktesting }}{% else %}{{ slack_devops }}{% endif %}"*

You are already in template mode so you can't use {{ }} inside {% %}, so delete the {{ }} and it will work

{% if testing == 'true' %}{{ slack_slacktesting }}{% else %}{{ slack_devops }}{% endif %}

There are some shorter version you could use:

{{ slack_slacktesting if testing == 'true' else slack_devops }}

or

{{ (testing == 'true') | ternary(slack_slacktesting, slack_devops) }}


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Kai Stian Olstad