It's much easier to put variables in host_vars/ or group_vars/ directories instead, which is something I'd consider doing.
If you want to define structured variables, like you seem to be doing above, you'll want this. otherwise you're defining strings, which I don't think you want. On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Harsh Jha <[email protected]> wrote: > My host inventory has a host specific variable and it looks as follows - > > > > > > > > > > > *[local]localhost[server_nodes]abcd.compute-1.amazonaws.com > <http://abcd.compute-1.amazonaws.com>[client_nodes]xyz.compute-1.amazonaws.com > <http://xyz.compute-1.amazonaws.com> > subs="[\"elasticsearch_nodes\"]"ghi.compute-1.amazonaws.com > <http://ghi.compute-1.amazonaws.com> > subs="\[\"elasticsearch_nodes\"\]"jkl.compute-1.amazonaws.com > <http://jkl.compute-1.amazonaws.com> subs='["nginx_nodes"]'* > > I'm talking about the "subs" variable here. I have tried using it in three > different ways as shown above but none of them solves my purpose. Actually > I want to keep double quotes. So if I put the following in a template file - > > var1 = {{ subs }} > > It should get converted to - > > var1 = ["nginx_nodes"] > > instead it gets converted to - > > var1 = ['nginx_nodes'] > > I want to keep double quotes and avoid getting them converted to single > quotes. Please provide some suggestions. Thanks. > > -- > 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/5f053918-8a78-49e0-951c-8f329f13fec8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/5f053918-8a78-49e0-951c-8f329f13fec8%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 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/CA%2BnsWgxdiQXcw%2B4F%3D5HzpMfxbEz83YD89JzJydRBtG7FsPFc4w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
