It depends on context of your actual task. Adding top-level hash will do if
you can put definitions for all *_var data in a single unit.
For multiple units (f.e. per-role definitions) you may try to set
"hash_behaviour=merge" in ansible.cfg, though this is generally not
recommended.
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
vars:
- cmd_envs:
djbdns: { FOO: "DJ DNS" }
vnstat: { FOO: "VN, stat!" }
tasks:
- name: Test flexible vars
command: echo "$FOO"
environment: cmd_envs[item]
with_items:
- djbdns
- vnstat
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 4:10:24 PM UTC-7, Dmitry Makovey wrote:
>
> I know subject sounds kind of crazy, but here's the code to explain it a
> bit:
>
> - hosts: all
> vars:
> - djbdns_var:
> FOO: "DJ DNS"
> - vnstat_var:
> FOO: "VN, stat!"
> tasks:
> - name: Test flexible vars
> command: echo "$FOO"
> environment: "{{ item }}_var"
> with_items:
> - djbdns
> - vnstat
>
>
> which should be equivalent to something like:
>
> tasks:
> - name: Test flexible vars (step 1)
> command: echo "$FOO"
> environment: djbdns_var"
>
> - name: Test flexible vars (step 2)
> command: echo "$FOO"
> environment: vnstat_var"
>
>
> so what I'm trying to do is define different set of environment variables
> for each step of iteration, and the best way I figured was something like
> above. However it doesn't work. Ansible (1.5.3) recognizes passed argument
> as a string and throws an error rather than interpret resulting variable
> name.
>
> Question is: can something be done to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
>
>
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