Best way to define variables based on facts for a role

[Bruno Cochofel]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a role that has different template file if the server is virtual os physical.

What's the best way to filter this?

Thanks,

Bruno

[Raghavendra Rao]

I use these ansible facts for differentiating between physical and virtual guests:

        "ansible_virtualization_role": "guest",
        "ansible_virtualization_type": "kvm",

These work perfect along with a 'when' conditional. For example:

- template:

     src: <templatefile for virtual machine on control node>

     dest: <the destination on managed host>

 when: ansible_virtualization_role is defined or ansible_virtualization_role == "kvm"

If you want to explore more variables, run the following adhoc command on both the physical and virtual hosts and notice the change is the value of variables that facts report:

#ansible all -m setup | less

-R.Rao

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[Bruno Cochofel]

Hi R.Rao,

Thanks, gonna try that 

Bruno

On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 3:21:57 PM UTC+1, Raghavendra Rao wrote:

I use these ansible facts for differentiating between physical and virtual guests:

        "ansible_virtualization_role": "guest",
        "ansible_virtualization_type": "kvm",

These work perfect along with a 'when' conditional. For example:

- template:

     src: <templatefile for virtual machine on control node>

     dest: <the destination on managed host>

 when: ansible_virtualization_role is defined or ansible_virtualization_role == "kvm"

If you want to explore more variables, run the following adhoc command on both the physical and virtual hosts and notice the change is the value of variables that facts report:

#ansible all -m setup | less

-R.Rao

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 17:50, Bruno Cochofel <bruno....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to write a role that has different template file if the server is virtual os physical.

What's the best way to filter this?

Thanks,

Bruno

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