Defaults load into inventory scope. What I said applies to things in vars/
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Marko_Lisica <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > That is 100% clear. But in this case one role does not have its own > defaults and inherits defaults from the last role in a list regardles if > that role is played or not. > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> It's entirely intended. For instance, you might have a role that applies >> a particular configuration to machines that live in a particular >> datacenter, and one of the things that sets might be the port to use for >> the database >> server. That port variable would then be available to other roles. >> >> While this sounds scary at first, Ansible contains safeguards to make >> sure the variables used in one role are absolutely used there and not >> clobbered by another. Thus they have guaranteed scope to that role. >> >> As such, if you define a variable "port" in two places, each role is >> guaranteed to be able to read the local value. >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Marko Lisica <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I stumbled onto little mind game with ansible today : D . >>> >>> I have three roles that are tagged. >>> >>> - hosts: vagrant >>>> sudo: yes >>>> roles: >>>> - {role: ansible_users, tags: users} >>>> - {role: ansible_nginx, tags: nginx} >>>> - {role: ansible_mysql, tags: mysql} >>>> >>> >>> I have defaults/main.yml for "ansible_users" and "ansible_mysql" in >>> their respective places. >>> >>> This is "ansible_users" defaults: >>> >>> --- >>>> users: >>>> - user: detlic >>>> webdir: >>>> - woodpecker >>>> - aligator >>>> - user: keder >>>> webdir: [] >>>> >>> >>> This is "ansible_mysql" defaults: >>> >>> --- >>>> users: >>>> - user: detlic >>>> db: >>>> - aligatordb >>>> - woodpeckerdb >>>> - user: jazavac >>>> db: >>>> - badgerdb >>>> - ddaybdb >>>> >>> >>> I have left NGINX role without "defaults". How I understand things is >>> that NGINX will inherit "defaults" vars from other roles and use them where >>> it can. But in this case {{ VARS }} are named the same in both USER and >>> MYSQL roles. >>> >>> NGINX role is before MYSQL from whoom it should inherit vars? In my test >>> case it inherits it from the LAST role in the list. So in this case it is >>> MYSQL. If I remove MYSQL role from a list then everything is fine. >>> >>> Another thing is if I leave MYSQL role present BUT use TAGS and play >>> roles with jsut USERS and NGINX tags, still NGINX inherits "defaults" from >>> MYSQL. >>> >>> Can someone comment on this. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/eb9bf810-d04e-4998-86e4-72e0ab8aa791%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/eb9bf810-d04e-4998-86e4-72e0ab8aa791%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/y_Gucqc_3sE/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEVJ8QPg4RQo6Ae-K0pLUAkyA6J2W7R53-nxGNmZPR%3DGKKM7iA%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEVJ8QPg4RQo6Ae-K0pLUAkyA6J2W7R53-nxGNmZPR%3DGKKM7iA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CABqYKhB9bpMmDOz7QDhCscrsY%3DWAdvpAor65pBtRpXh5GToqPQ%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CABqYKhB9bpMmDOz7QDhCscrsY%3DWAdvpAor65pBtRpXh5GToqPQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. 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